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Nepal recorded 444 new Covid-19 cases and three deaths on Thursday. According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 1, 996 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 211 returned positive. Likewise, 2, 958 people underwent antigen tests, of which 233 tested positive. The Ministry said that 307 infected people recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours. As of today, there are 4, 199 active cases in the country.

The Kathmandu Metropolitan City on Thursday demolished structures constructed illegally by the Alfa Beta in New Baneshwor. A team led by Kathmandu Metropolitan City Mayor Balen Shah dismantled the structures built against the map. Mayor Shah along with his team had reached AlfaBeta this afternoon after the concerned side ignored the 35-day public notice issued earlier by the Metropolitan City. When Shah reached the site, the operator asked the mayor to show the blueprint of the building. Furious Shah asked a counter question to the operator, “who should have the blueprint of the building you or me?” After some time, the team reached the Alfa Beta with the blueprint and a dozer. The Alfa Beta had been operating a pharmacy in an illegal way. The underground floor made for the parking will also be vacated at the direction of the KMC.

Kathmandu Metropolitan City Mayor Balen Shah today directed the owners of the Shankhamul Burger House at New Baneshwor and Alfa Beta House to immediately vacate the underground areas of the buildings. After inspecting these areas, Mayor Shah urged the owners to use the underground areas constructed for parking for the same purpose. A medical lab has been operated in the parking area of Alfa House while Burger House of Shankhamul is running at the basement parking. Chief of Kathmandu Municipal Police Raju Pandey said that Mayor Shah asked both of them to remove infrastructures constructed at the parking area immediately. Similarly, the team comprising Mayor Shah and Municipal Police Chief Pandey has now reached Gaushala in order to acquire information about the building where Muktinath Development Bank is located. The KMC had issued a 35-day notice to remove illegally constructed structures. The KMC said it has been compelled to go for action after the notice was ignored.

Weather would remain partly to generally cloudy across the country with chances of light to moderate rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms and lightning at a few places today. According to the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, there is a possibility of light to moderate rainfall with thunderstorms and lightning at one or two places of Sudurpaschim and Madhes provinces and at a few places of the remaining provinces. Partly to generally cloudy weather is predicted in the hilly region and partly cloudy to generally fair in the rest of the regions of the country tonight. Likewise, light to moderate rain with thunderstorms and lightning has been forecast at few places of Province 1, Bagmati and Gandaki provinces and at one or two places of the remaining provinces tonight. Weather on Friday The weather will remain partly to generally cloudy throughout the country with chances of light to moderate rain along with thunder and lightning at some places of Province no 1, Bagmati province and Gandaki province, and at a few places of the rest of the provinces on Friday. The weather update shared by the Meteorological Forecasting Division states that the minimum temperature in Kathmandu Valley was 20.5 degrees Celsius and the maximum 31.0 degrees Celsius over the last 24 hours. Similarly, the lowest temperature of 16.1 degrees Celsius was recorded in Jumla and the highest 36.0 degrees Celsius in Dipayal throughout the country in the last 24 hours.