All of the five patients have reportedly contracted the virus while abroad.Īnadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. The country, so far, has five confirmed cases of coronavirus. Nepal has been under a complete lockdown for the past five days, restricting movements to only essential services. Indian-Nepal Border will be closed from 24 April because of health and security issues (Tegulu Bulletin, ).
Nepali government suspends all domestic flights and international flights with Brazil, India, South Africa (, ). The country's Tourism Ministry shut the expeditions on Everest and other Himalayan peaks over the pandemic two weeks ago. Authorities extend lockdown in Kathmandu and surrounding districts until 27 May (RT, ). State government spokesperson on COVID-19 and Minister Neiba Kronu said that the High Powered Committee (HPC) on COVID-19 decided to impose a state-wide total. Tens of thousands of foreigners visit Nepal every spring season, which runs April through May, for trekking and mountaineering.
The U.S., Canada and Australia were trying to negotiate chartered flights to evacuate their citizens from Nepal, he added. As of 26 July 2022, the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) has. Nepal has lifted the lockdown even as India has also re-imposed strict restriction on movement in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, two states bordering Nepal where there has been a surge in cases after they partially lifted the. "Most of them were airlifted while dozens also traveled overland to Kathmandu," Bhatta told Anadolu Agency. A country-wide lockdown came into effect on 24 March 2020, and ended on 21 July 2020. The lockdown was clamped four months ago after the second case was detected in a passenger who had flown in from Paris. Nepal last week halted all international flights and went under lockdown to fight the pandemic.Īmong the 964 rescued so far, over 200 were airlifted from Lukla, near Everest, 177 from Jomsom, near Nepal's border with China, and 60 from the base camp of Mount Annapurna, according to the officer. It is difficult to determine how many of the 1.33 million workers were employed within 20 kilometres of their homes. He said around 600 people from European countries have been evacuated over the past three days. before the lockdown.9 This brings the estimated total number of workers displaced and unemployed as a result of the lockdown in the construction sector to about 1.33 million. Nepal has rescued nearly 1,000 foreign tourists stranded in remote mountain regions across the country after authorities imposed a lockdown to stem the spread of coronavirus pandemic, an official said Sunday.Īn estimated 10,000 tourists from Europe, Australia, South Korea, the U.S., and Canada have been stuck in trekking routes and other tourist locations in the country, said Kabindra Bhatta of the Nepal Tourism Board. Nepal reported a total of 751,001 COVID cases as of Wednesday with 10,568 related deaths, according to data from the Johns Hopkins University.
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