updated: May 03 2021, 12:52 ist
Public fury over Nepal’s growing wave of coronavirus infections has been rising in the country, with many people blaming travelers from India and several other virus-stricken countries, as well as government ineptitude in handling the pandemic and large political rallies.
In response, Nepal announced Sunday that it was halting all domestic and international flights: domestic flights as of midnight, and international flights as of midnight Wednesday.
As India’s crisis has worsened over recent weeks, people from several Indian states thronged to Nepal via land and air routes. Some were Nepali migrant workers returning home; others aimed to travel onward to third countries.
KATHMANDU (NYTIMES) - Public fury over Nepal s growing wave of coronavirus infections has been rising in the country, with many people blaming travellers from India and several other virus-stricken countries, as well as government ineptitude in handling the pandemic and large political rallies.
In response, Nepal announced on Sunday (May 2) that it was halting all domestic and international flights: domestic flights as of midnight, and international flights as of midnight Wednesday.
As India s crisis has worsened over recent weeks, people from several Indian states thronged to Nepal via land and air routes. Some were Nepali migrant workers returning home; others aimed to travel onward to third countries.
Bhadra Sharma, The New York Times
Published: 03 May 2021 01:17 PM BdST
Updated: 03 May 2021 01:17 PM BdST Shop owners wait for customers in Kathmandu on March 17, 2020. Nepal, desperate for tourist money, says it has taken steps to prevent a coronavirus outbreak, including social distancing at base camp and evacuation plans in case COVID-19 flares up. The New York Times
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In response, Nepal announced Sunday that it was halting all domestic and international flights: domestic flights as of midnight, and international flights as of midnight Wednesday.
Send Nepal s statistical agency is preparing to conduct the national population census from May 9 despite the coronavirus pandemic, an official has said.
Kathmandu:
The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), a government-owned body under the National Planning Commission, has already concluded training for the facilitators, supervisors and surveyors for the purpose and is mobilising around 55,000 volunteers and surveyors for the census that takes place every 10 years.
The agency is spending Rs. 4 billion to conduct the census this time. The ongoing corona pandemic is not going to affect the national census, said a senior officer at the CBS. Even if there is a lockdown, the census wouldn t be affected much since only one surveyor would reach a family and the interview can be conducted outside the home in an open space by maintaining social distancing, Hem Raj Regmi, Deputy Director-General of the CBS told The Rising Nepal, the government-owned En
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