Among 31 persons infected with coronavirus at Koshi Hospital, six persons are being discharged with full recovery on Wednesday. Minister for Social Development in State-1, Jivan Ghimire, shared this information at a press conference this evening. Throat swabs from six persons tested with PCR method was resulted in negative for three times among 13 persons

The people’s representatives at Indrawati Rural Municipality in Sindhupalchowk district have decided to donate their one-month’s salary and other perks to the fund set up locally to prevent and control COVID-19 and treat the infected ones. A meeting held on May 3 decided to that end, according to Indrawati Rural Municipality Chairperson Banshalal Tamang. The

daily activities following the extended lockdown imposed by the government to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The municipality launched the third-phase of relief distribution to the daily wage earners and poor families in the municipality. The municipality has received relief materials worth around Rs 3 million from different organizations, individuals, cooperatives and civil society after

 The 130th International Labour Day has been affected as a result of COVID-19. The Trade Unions working in Nepal have not scheduled any formal programme due to the lockdown imposed by the government to check the flow of Coronavirus in the country. However, the Joint Trade Union Coordination Centre (JTUCC) has decided to observe the

 The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) says the Central Prison has more inmates than its capacity. NHRC secretary Ved Prasad Bhattarai, in a press release on Monday, stated that a monitoring carried out by the constitutional commission found there were 3,164 inmates in the Prison as against its capacity of housing 1,250 individuals. The press

 Monitoring of human rights situation during the global pandemic of coronavirus has been started. A team comprising Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) Kathmandu district president Shantaram Bidari, Kathmandu District Bar Association president Jagadish Ghimire and the NGO Federation Kathmandu president Pradip Dangol monitored the human rights situation in Kathmandu district as per the mandate provided

After two COVID-19 patients from Balgung district recovered and were sent back home recently, COVID-19-induced situation in the district has improved to some extent. Some progress has been made in terms of risk minimization for COVID-19 pandemic. But Health Office, Baglung Chief Suraj Gurau spoke for the need to work with new strategy and observe