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In view of increasing COVID-19 cases, the Ministry of Health and Population has managed COVID-19 treatment in all seven provinces by designating hospitals.

Seventeen federal and provincial hospitals in the provinces have been selected for the purpose, said Dr Samir Kumar Adhikari, joint secretary for the Ministry.

As per this management, in Province 1, Koshi Hospital, Biratnagar and B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan have to take care of COVID-19 patients. Similarly, in Madhes Province, Janakpur Provincial Hospital, Janakpur and Narayani Hospital, Birgunj will take care of infected people.

In Bagmati, infected people will be provided medical treatment at Shukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital, Teku, Kathmandu; Bharatpur Hospital, Chitwan; Bir Hospital, Kathmandu; Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu; Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Lalitpur and in Gandaki Province at Pokhara Academy of Health Sciences, Pokhara and Dhaulagiri Hospital, Baglung.

Likewise, in Lumbini Province, Lumbini Provincial Hospital, Butwal and Bheri Hospital, Nepalgunj will take care of infected people while in Karnali Province, Karnali Academy of Health Sciences, Jumla and Surkhet Provincial Hospital, Birendranagar. In Sudurpaschim Province, Seti Provincial Hospital, Dhangadhi and Dadeldhura Hospital will treat COVID-19 patients.

Four members of a family were found dead at Padamsal in Kavresthali of Tarekeshwor Municipality, Kathmandu on Monday.

The Kathmandu Metropolitan Police Range, Kathmandu said that Dinesh Pandey (41), a permanent resident of Gorkha, his wife Sunita Pandey (39), daughter Ashika Pandey (13) and son Ashik Pandey (8) 

Locals informed the police administration after Pandey’s daughter Ashika did not come to the school. She was supposed to go to school at 8 am.

Police were informed that the doors and the windows of the house were closed.

A police team from the Metropolitan Police Circle, Balaju was immediately deployed to the incident site.

When police reached the incident site, the doors and the windows of the house were found locked from inside, it has been learnt.

According to locals, Sunita was preparing to go to the UK.

Police suspected that Dinesh might have killed himself after murder other members of the family.

Police said that they are looking into the case.

Nepal reported 895 new Covid-19 cases and one death on Monday.

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 3, 685 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 632 returned positive. Likewise, 2, 224 people underwent antigen tests, of which 263 were tested positive.

The Ministry said that 264 infected people recovered from the disease.

As of today, there are 4, 934 active cases in the country.

A person died and another was injured when a landslide triggered by incessant rainfall buried a house at Pandhero in Dihikopatan of Pokhara Metropolitan City-6 on Monday.

According to DSP Sundar Tiwari of the District Police Office, Kaski, the deceased has been identified as Santosh Sunar (26) of Bhurjungkhola, Machhapuchhare Rural Municipality-1, Kaski. He had been living in the house as a tenant.

Critically injured in the incident, he was rushed to the Western Regional Hospital but doctors pronounced him dead in arrival, Tiwari said.

Sunar’s sister Sunita (27) was injured in the incident.

She has been receiving treatment at the Gandaki Medical College, police said.

Sunita’s 10-year-old daughter Simran Sunar was unhurt in the incident.