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Nepal is highly vulnerable to Zika outbreak as the virus vectors are present in almost all parts of the country. Epidemiologists say government lacks testing kits to carry out surveillance.

Fully vaccinated need not stay in hotel quarantine and can self isolate at home. For the non-vaccinated mandatory hotel quarantine has been reduced to seven days from 10 days earlier.

It is not immediately clear how many doses Nepal would get of the 7 million doses it has allocated for more than a dozen Asian countries.

After failing to get reappointed as prime minister, KP Sharma Oli repeats his December 20 move, taking the country towards elections amid the raging Covid-19 pandemic.

A WHO collaborating centre in India confirmed that all samples of the infected people belong to B.1.617, known as double mutant variant, which is highly infectious and possibly more lethal.

Thailand on Monday widened its travel ban to international arrivals from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal in a bid to prevent the Indian variant of Covid-19 from entering the country.

Thai travellers will soon find it easier to visit the Buddha’s birthplace, thanks to new tourism cooperation between Nepal and Thailand.

The Embassy of Nepal in Washington has said it is following recent incidents across the United States involving violent attacks against people of Asian origin, including the horrific shooting in Atlanta in which eight people lost their lives and an assault on a Nepali Uber driver in San Francisco.

Nine people have been killed since July, three in March alone. Authorities say the victims had gone to the forest for fodder but tigers are seen in human settlements too.

Nepal will receive $5 for every tonne of carbon dioxide emission reduced as country embarks on earning up to Rs5 billion by selling 9 million tonnes of CO2 by 2025.

The scheme will use the traceability system to track the product along the entire supply chain, officials say.

The message was conveyed to Foreign Minister Gyawali by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang during a telephone conversation Friday evening.