Coronavirus

Students who had earlier missed their COVID-19 vaccine to be administered the vaccine in their schools from Saturday

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KATHMANDU, Jan 29: The government has begun administering the COVID-19 vaccine to students at their schools beginning from Saturday. The vaccination drive will be conducted for fi ...

CCMCC recommends closing schools until Feb 12

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KATHMANDU, Jan 28: The COVID-19 Crisis Management Coordination Committee (CCMCC) has recommended to the government to close the schools nationwide until February 12 amid the third COVID-19 wave. ...

India logs 2,51,209 new COVID-19 cases, daily positivity rate drops to 15.88 pc

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NEW DELHI: India reported 2,51,209 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry reported on Friday. With this, the daily positivity rate in the country dropped...

COVID-19: 6,827 cases detected, 10 die on Friday

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KATHMANDU, Jan 28: Nepal, on Friday, reported a decline in the number of new COVID-19 cases on Friday as 6,827 people tested positive for the virus in the past...

554,566 people jabbed against COVID-19 on Thursday alone

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KATHMANDU, Jan 27: As many as 554,566 people received vaccines against COVID-19 on Thursday. With Thursday’s vaccinations, the total number of people receiving at ...

5,292 people recover from COVID-19 Thursday, recovery rate stands at 89.1 percent

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KATHMANDU, Jan 27: At least 5,292 people have recovered from the coronavirus disease in the past 24 hours. With this, a total of 837,004 COVID-19 patients have so far g...

15 people succumb to COVID-19 in past 24 hours

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KATHMANDU, Jan 27: As many as 15 people succumbed to COVID-19 in the past 24 hours as of Thursday afternoon. Releasing regular COVID-19 updates on Thursday, the Ministr ...

Nepal receives 1.3 million COVID vaccines donated by France and Italy

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Kathmandu, Jan 27: Nepal on Wednesday received 1.3 million COVID-19 vaccines from France and Italy. Added to the 4.1 million vaccines sent by Germany, this brings the number ...

Nepal records 4,433 recoveries and 8,454 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday

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KATHMANDU, Jan 26: The Health Ministry on Wednesday recorded 8,454 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday. According to the latest data of the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP)...

Ex-Deputy PM Bam Dev Gautam and his spouse contract COVID-19

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KATHMANDU, Jan 26: Former Deputy Prime Minister and former Home Minister, Bam Dev Gautam and his wife, Tulsa Thapa Gautam, have contracted the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). ...

Nepal records 12,008 new corona cases, 3,040 recoveries and 8 deaths

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KATHMANDU, Jan 25: Officials, on Tuesday, confirmed 12,008 new cases of the novel coronavirus disease on Wednesday. As many as 9,432 cases were detected through 1 ...

1.6 million doses of Moderna vaccine arrive in Nepal

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KATHMANDU, Jan 25: More than 1.6 million doses of Moderna vaccine against coronavirus have arrived in Nepal. According to the Chief of Supplies Section, Department of Health ...

Know Nepal’s COVID-19 vaccination status

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KATHMANDU, Jan 25: At least 29,424,756 doses of different COVID-19 shots have so far been administered in Nepal since the country began its vaccination campaign a year ago on January 27,...

Local administration bans cross-border movement via Gaddachauki

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KANCHANPUR, Jan 24: The movement of people from India through the Gaddachauki border transit point has been halted in view of the increasing infection of the Omicron variant of the...

COVID-19 pandemic can end in 2022 if international community takes comprehensive measures: WHO

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JAN 25: "The international community can put an end to the coronavirus pandemic in 2022 if it takes comprehensive measures," Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus...

Valley reports 4,676 new corona cases, 38,581 active cases in Kathmandu district alone

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KATHMANDU, Jan 24: The Kathmandu Valley on Monday reported 4,676 new COVID-19 cases. Of the three districts in the Valley, where Nepal's federal capital city lies, ...