![]() Please contact us for subscription options. Nepal reported 1,648 new cases and 20 deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the total infections to 764,295 and the death toll to 10,770. 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. A vaccination drive started on Jan 27, 2021, and as of April 20, 2021, 17 million doses of COVID vaccines have been administered to selected populations as a first dose. The country, so far, has five confirmed cases of coronavirus. As of April 20, 2021, there have been a total of 287 567 confirmed cases and 3102 deaths in Nepal, a country with a population of more than 28 million. Nepal has been under a complete lockdown for the past five days, restricting movements to only essential services. The country's Tourism Ministry shut the expeditions on Everest and other Himalayan peaks over the pandemic two weeks ago. ![]() ![]() Tens of thousands of foreigners visit Nepal every spring season, which runs April through May, for trekking and mountaineering. The current round of lockdown expires on Wednesday midnight local time and the three districts in the valley - Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur - decided to extend it by another seven days starting. The U.S., Canada and Australia were trying to negotiate chartered flights to evacuate their citizens from Nepal, he added. The authorities in Nepal's Kathmandu Valley on Tuesday extended the ongoing lockdown till August 11 to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. "Most of them were airlifted while dozens also traveled overland to Kathmandu," Bhatta told Anadolu Agency. Nepal saw the highest post-Covid monthly arrivals in October, pushing the total number since the start of the year across the 100,000 mark. 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 has recorded its highest daily rise in coronavirus infections. He said around 600 people from European countries have been evacuated over the past three days. Nepal had performed 7,791 tests for COVID-19, the highest number of tests during the lockdown. According to Nepal's Ministry of Home Affairs, the lockdown had been enforced in 75 of the 77 districts in the country as of June 17. 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. The country has now recorded a total of 621,056 COVID-19 cases, with 556,798 of them recovered already, while the national death toll stands at 8,726.
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