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A couple was found dead at Bojeni in Shankarapur Municipality-3, Kathmandu on Thursday.

The deceased have been identified as Padam Bahadur Thieng (52) and his wife Phul Kumari Thieng (47).

According to Dinesh Raj Mainali, spokesperson at the Metropolitan Police Range, Kathmandu, they were found dead in their room.

Police suspect that the incident might have occured due to suffocation as they had slept after burning coal in their room.

Surya Bahadur Thieng (26), son of the deceased, broke the door after they did not wake up till 7 am today and found them dead, Mainali said.

Police said that they are looking into the case.

Pokhara Metropolitan City has decided to halt services except for the most essential ones from today in view of the heightened risk of coronavirus.

Issuing a notice on Thursday, the metropolis said that its regular services would remain closed till January 30 since some of its employees have contracted coronavirus infection of late.

Metropolis spokesperson Dhan Bahadur Nepali said that all regular services except for the emergency ones have been halted to prevent the virus from spreading.

He further informed that the service delivery of four out of 33 wards of the metropolis has also been halted due to the COVID-19 outbreak. RSS

Two persons died when a motorbike they were riding in met with an accindent in Garuna Municipality-4 in the wee hours of Thursday.

Police identified the deceased as Mohammad Altaf Alam (19) and Ravi Sah (25) of Gadhimai Municipality-8, Rautahat.

The two-wheeler (Na 62 Pa 3399) was heading towards Samanpur from Garuna when the incident occurred, DSP Shreeram Bhandari of the District Police Office, Rautahat said.

Critically injured in the incident, they breathed their last on the way to a hospital, he added.

Further investigation into the incident is underway, police said.

India logged 2,86,384 new COVID-19 cases and 573 deaths in the last 24 hours, stated the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Thursday.

With this, the country's active caseload mounted to 22,02,472, which is 5.46 per cent of the total COVID-19 cases reported so far.

As per the health bulletin, the daily positivity rate is 19.59 per cent while the weekly positivity rate is 17.75 per cent.

With 3,06,357 recoveries reported in the last 24 hours, the cumulative recoveries reached 3,76,77,328. The recovery rate is currently at 93.33 per cent.

However, with the addition of new fatalities, the COVID death toll in the country climbed to 4,91,700.

As many as 14,62,261 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours to detect the presence of the virus. Over 72.21 crore tests have been conducted so far in the country, stated the official release from the Ministry.

Meanwhile, under the ongoing nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive, over 163.84 crore vaccine doses have been administered so far.