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Nepal reported 15 new Covid-19 cases on Monday. According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 887 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 15 returned positive. Likewise, 661 people underwent antigen tests, of which none were tested positive. The Ministry said that no one died of the virus in the last 24 hours. The Ministry said that eight infected people recovered from the disease. As of today, there are 577 active cases in the country.  

A couple was found dead in Devdaha of Rupandehi district on Monday. Balendra Jolmi Magar (36) of Palpali Tole, Devdaha Municipality-5 and his wife Hemkala (32) were found dead in their house this morning. Police said that the door of their room was locked from inside when they reached the incident. Inspector Ganga Bahadur Saru of the Devdaha Police Post said that Balendra was found hanging from a ceiling fan while Hemkala was found lying on the floor. According to the nature of the incident, Balendra might have committed suicide after killing Hemkala, police said. Police, however, said that they are looking into the case.  

A Tanzanian commercial flight operated by Precision Air crash-landed in bad weather in Lake Victoria on Sunday, killing 19 people, CNN reported.

The country’s Prime Minister, Kassim Majaliwa, said officials believe all bodies have been recovered from the airplane.

“We’re starting to pull out the luggage and personal items from the aircraft. A team of doctors and security agencies have started the process of identifying the dead and notifying the families,” Majaliwa said.

The airline confirmed the death toll and amended the number of survivors down to 24 in an updated statement on Sunday evening. Earlier, the carrier as well as local officials had said that 26 of the 43 people on board had been rescued, according to CNN.

“Precision Air extends its deepest sympathies to the families and friends of the passenger and crew involved in this tragic incident. The company will strive to provide them with information and whatever assistance they will require in their difficult time,” the airline said.

“The names of passengers and crew on board the aircraft will not be released until all next-of-kin have been notified,” it added.

The flight, including 39 passengers and four crew members, had taken off from Tanzania’s commercial capital of Dar es Salaam and was headed to the town of Bukoba before it plunged into Lake Victoria as it was preparing to land, CNN reported.

Forty-nine people have died and 25 are still missing due to the monsoon-induced disasters and road accidents in Karnali Province in the second and third week of October. Seventy-four persons were injured in various disaster-related incidents in the province. The highest casualties were reported in Jumla and Mugu due to the disasters triggered by incessant rains in the second and half of the third week of October, said Krishna Bahadur Rokaya, Disaster Contact Person at the Karnali Province Government's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Law. He gave this information in the Disaster Response Review and Earthquake Scenario discussion program organized here on Sunday. "Ten persons each died in Jumla and Mugu, nine in Kalikot, eight in Humla, two in Dolpa and one in Dailekh," he said, adding that the number of persons missing in disasters has reached 18 in Kalikot, three in Dailekh and one each in Jumla, Humla, Dolpa and Rukum Paschim. No human casualties due to disasters have been reported in Surkhet district in the month of Shrawan, Bhadra and Ashoj (July 17 to October 17) in the current fiscal year 2022/23. As per the data shared by the Ministry, 20, 794 families have been displaced due to the disasters in the province. Among them, 7,418 are from Kalikot and 5,282 are from Mugu. Similarly, 33 persons lost their lives to road accidents, one person died due to lightning and two persons due to frostbite in the province. The preparedness and response plan greatly assisted in the search and rescue works during the disasters, said Dinesh Sagar Bhusal, Secretary at the Ministry.