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Various hospitals in Chitwan district report 230 cases of scrub typhus. Health Office, Chitwan said of the infected, 108 are from the district while remaining are from outside Chitwan.  Total tests conducted for the disease were 1,873. Last fiscal year, 286 tests out of 3,286, came positive to scrub typhus. Scrub typhus is caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi which is carried by mites and transmitted to humans from their bites. Fever, chills, reddish eyes, coughing, headache, muscle pain, joint pain, rash and a dark, scab-like region at the site of the bite are the symptoms of disease. Similarly, the district reports 1,155 cases of dengue as of today of the current fiscal year. Of them, 799 are within from the district, 299 are from outside the districts and addresses of 177 are yet to be ascertained.  

Eight persons died and five others were injured when a landslide triggered by torrential rainfall buried two houses in Chhayanath Rural Municipality-11 of Mugu district on Sunday. The deceased have been identified as Gaurikala Bohara (82), Sushmita Bhagri (19), Hojali Bhagri (30),  Bir Bahadur Bhagri (54), Chakra Bir Bohara (15), Sakka Bahadur Sawat (20), Krishna Sawat (20), and Hajira Bhagri (60). Ward Chairman Kunjuma Kumai said that locals are searching for those buried in the landslide. DSP Subash Humal of the District Police Office, Mugu said that security personnel have not been able to reach the incident site as the landslides and floods washed away all the roads and bridges connecting to the place. Locals said that hundreds of families of Bhambada, Dhuma, Karkibada Pina, Tuma, Balai Ghuir, Jhyari, Topla, and Kotali of Chhayanath Rara Municipality have been displaced following the water-induced disaster.  

Bhimdutta Highway has been obstructed in Kailali's Godabari Municipality-4 due to incessant rainfall and subsequent landslide. DSP Bed Prakash Joshi said that a three-member police team led by ASI Dil Bahadur Bogati has been deputed there. Efforts are underway to clear the debris and resume the vehicular movement, Joshi added. The rainfall has caused damages to the rural road of Sudurpaschim Province and also obstructed vehicular movement to and from seven mountain districts.

Most of the places in Banke district have been inundated due to incessant rain and subsequent flooding. At least 3,600 people belonging to 500 households have been rendered displaced because of natural disaster. The most affected places are Raptisonari, Narainapur and Duduwa. The Rapti River flooding has displaced 300 households of Raptisonari Rural Municipality-2, Tikulipur settlement, said Information Officer at the District Disaster Management Committee Rupan Gyawali. "The displaced are those abandoning homes due to fear", he said. The flood-affected people have been kept in different shelter homes and schools while some of them have returned to their own homes, he added. The flood has widely eroded the river embankment areas. Likewise, over 300 residents of Krishi Chauferi of Duduwa Rural Municipality and ward 18 and 20 of Nepalgunj Sub-Metropolis have also been displaced due to inundation. Flood has displaced 200 families of Narainapur. Most of the settlements in six wards of the rural municipality have been waterlogged. Rural Municipality Chair Istiak Ahamad Sah said that the local people are not in a condition to reside and prepare meals in their homes due to inundation. The inundated areas have been without electricity for the past four days. Several settlements, including Baniya village, Roshanpurawa, Mahatiniya, Bahabpurawa, Gigali, Rataiya, Kautiya, Kodipur and Pachpedawa, Ghoddanriya, Panditpurawa and Jamunaha have been waterlogged. "Almost all areas here have been besieged with water", he said. A meeting of the District Disaster Management Committee has decided to collect data of the flood survivors and provide dry foods to the affected as part of immediate relief measure.