With the government preparing to ease the lockdown, the Department of Transport Management has started drafting guidelines to allow public vehicles to start operation in Nepal

Nepal has reported 314 additional cases of coronavirus transmission on Monday, taking the national tally to 3,762

Defiance of the lockdown imposed by the government to check the spread of the novel coronavirus has been on the rise inside Kathmandu valley, although the number of people contracting COVID-19 is growing exponentially across the country

As many as 37 cases of coronavirus transmission have been reported in the Kathmandu valley until June 7

The Far-western Province has written to quarantine centres and hospitals to stop PCR testing for five days because of a huge backlog of throat and nasal swab samples that have accumulated in labs in the region because of limited testing capacity

The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) has asked all international airlines operating to and from Nepal to not initiate any bookings for scheduled or passenger chartered flights originating from or with destination to Nepal

Nepal’s central government has laid out guidelines for COVID-19 quarantine centres across the country, but some local authorities say it may be better to let people self-isolate at home rather than run crowded facilities that may themselves spread the disease

The Ministry of Health and Population has reported 323 new cases of the coronavirus infection on Saturday, taking Nepal’s tally to 3,235

Nepali Bollywood star Manisha Koirala, actor-comedian duo Haribansha Acharya and Madan Krishna Shrestha are among prominent public figures who have urged Prime Minister K P Oli to reconsider his government’s decision in the budget to increase by up to five times the tax on imported electric vehicles

Officials at the Ministry of Health and Population say that declaring public health emergency will help the government deal with the COVID-19 crisis more effectively

As many as 278 new coronavirus transmission cases have been reported in Nepal of Friday, taking the national tally to 2912

The Nepal government has turned a party venue in Bhaktapur into a holding centre for Nepalis flying in from abroad, the first of many such centres in Kathmandu

The Ministry of Health has reported 334 new cases of the coronavirus infection on Thursday, taking Nepal’s tally to 2,634. This is the first time that single day cases have crossed the 300-mark

With no end in sight to the nationwide lockdown imposed on March 24 that has effectively halted all economic activities for the past two-and-a-half months, traders, firms and industries have begun defying restrictions and resuming their operations

Nepal's Health Ministry on Wednesday confirmed that 201 new cases have been added to the official records, taking Nepal’s tally to 2,300