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Manang health office chief contracts coronavirus infection, district hospital sealed off

Posted by | Aug 26, 2020 |

Two additional coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Manang. Chief District Officer Dhruba Giri shared that the chief of the Manang Health Office, a local of Chapakot, Syangja, was diagnosed with the virus. Medical Officer Dr Santosh Adhikari shared all other services excluding emergency service of the district hospital have been shut for contact tracing after health chief tested positive for the coronavirus.   Giri further shared a teacher of Pisang primary school at Manang Disyang rural municipality, a local of Bharatpur-16, was also diagnosed with the coronavirus infection. In a press statement issued by the Gandaki State Health Directorate today, two persons of Manang with their age at 49 and 51 had also tested positive for the deadly virus. “Manang District Health Office chief and teacher have been confirmed with the infection”, Medical Officer Adhikari said. Both the infected entered the district on 4 August. With this the district tally of coronavirus infected has reached five. One of them has recovered from the disease. Swab samples of as many as 115 people who came to contact with the two coronavirus-infected teachers were collected for lab test. Two among the examined were diagnosed with the virus.   According to Giri, contact tracing and swab samples collections are taking palace simultaneously. Likewise, Chame rural municipality has put off all the services excluding the emergency ones beig delivered by the rural...

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Four dengue and scrub typhus infected diagnosed in a day

Posted by | Aug 25, 2020 |

Four dengue and scrub typhus infected patients were detected in Myagdi in a day.   The Beni Hospital diagnosed them with dengue and scrub typhus infections on Monday after the patients having high fever had visited the district health facility for treatment. Hospital’s information officer Prakash Subedi shared dengue and scrub typhus infections were diagnosed with a 32-year-old woman of Beni municipality-4, Singa, 22-year-old woman of the municipality-5, Pulachaur and 33-year-old man of Annapurna rural municipality-4, Narchynag.   However, 1 33-year-old woman of Annapurna rural municipality-6, Pokharebagar was detected with dengue only. They all are receiving treatment at Beni Hospital. Myagdi district alone recorded 37 dengue and 12 scrub typhus cases this year....

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Tokha municipality to provide 150 per cent perks to frontline health workers

Posted by | Aug 24, 2020 |

Tokha Municipality is to provide 150 per cent allowance to the health workers mobilizing in the forefront in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic. The 61st meeting of the Municipal Executive on Sunday decided to provide allowances to the medical team including the medical officer and the lab technicians mobilized for collecting swab samples who are working at the frontline. The allowance would be based on the salary scale the medicos are getting at present and it would be provided from the date the isolation centre came into operation.   According to the Municipality’s spokesman Bachchu Raj Basyal, the municipal executive also decided to provide 100 per cent allowance to the ambulance drivers, security personnel, office helpers and cleaning staff directly mobilized in COVID-19 prevention. The allowance to these persons would be based on their daily attendance. The allowances would be provided on the recommendation of the Municipality’s health section. Similarly, the meeting decided to give 40 per cent allowance to drivers and the employees of the health section who are mobilizing indirectly in the prevention and control of COVID-19 while 25 per cent allowance to the rest of the health workers providing regular service. Those health workers who have been mobilized for contact tracing and collection of swab samples from the suspected coronavirus infected persons would be provided allowances from the month of Asar.   Mayor Prakash Adhikari said...

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How COVID-19 is reshaping everyday life of people

Posted by | Aug 24, 2020 |

– Birat Anupam After coming home from his office, Pramod Bhattarai would directly go to his room, replace his uniform by casual dress and would enter the kitchen for some snacks. However, after COVID-19 pandemic, the usual routine of the employee of Nepal’s famed business firm, Sipradi Hire and Purchase, has changed.   These days, besides protective gloves, KN95 facemask, repeated cleanliness of his hand, maintaining WHO-recommended physical distance, Bhattarai carries hand sanitizer. He sanitizes his hands every time he happens to touch metal or any unknown materials touched by unknown people. ”I have stopped talking close to the pair of my elder brother, their little sons as well as my mother and grandmother,” said Bhattarai who lives in a joint family at Pachrukhi of Itahari-5. He added, “As a frequent traveler going outside home, I have maintained distance with my family members especially elderly to prevent possible spread of the deadly virus. For this, I started using my own towel and cleaning my room and clothes myself for the first time.” Semanta Koirala, a fresh law graduate from Purbanchal University, has also changed his every day doing. This Itahari-based student have two homes- one at Itahari-5 and another at Itahari-7. Previously, he would stay almost all days at the home of Itahari-5. After pandemic, he has separated his night stay from other family members. ”I have to go...

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Bayern Munich won the European Cup for the sixth time

Posted by | Aug 23, 2020 | ,

LISBON: Bayern Munich won the European Cup for the sixth time on Sunday as Kingsley Coman’s goal gave them a 1-0 win over Paris Saint-Germain in an engrossing Champions League final in Lisbon, completing a fantastic season for the German giants and leaving their opponents still searching for the trophy they covet more than anything. It was often a cagey final, with a bit of needle between the teams, but chances too, especially before Coman appeared at the back post to head in Joshua Kimmich’s inviting 59th-minute cross and wrap up a treble for a team who had already won the Bundesliga and German Cup. Hansi Flick’s team will feel they deserved their victory, yet PSG will regret not taking any of the chances that were offered up to them on a surreal occasion at an empty Estadio da Luz. Kylian Mbappe in particular should have done better than shoot straight at Manuel Neuer right on the stroke of half-time. The France World Cup-winning forward had spoken of his determination to go down in his country’s history by helping PSG become just the second French winners of European football’s greatest prize. But they will have to wait for the chance to match Marseille, who won the inaugural Champions League in 1993. PSG’s Qatari owners spent a combined 402 million euros ($474m) on Neymar and Mbappe in 2017 to win...

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