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The government has made training mandatory for the Nepali workers going to European countries as domestic help. The Department of Foreign Employment has made orientation training mandatory for such workers after it was found that some manpower companies were sending workers to Cyprus, Romania among other countries without imparting them the orientation. The Guidelines on Sending Domestic Workers in Foreign Employment, 2072 has provisions requiring that the workers to be sent for this purpose should be imparted at least 30 days' training before going abroad for employment. The Department has also directed the listed manpower companies to make arrangements for sending the workers on foreign employment only after compulsorily providing them the training in accordance with the Work Procedures on Domestic Workers Orientation Training, 2070.

Nepal Telecom is going to distribute e-SIM to its customers starting today. The state-owned Telecom Company is going to distribute free e-SIM from its counter in Sundhara, Kathmandu. Postpaid and prepaid customers of the company who are currently using 'physical' SIMs can be changed to e-SIMs for free, said NT spokesperson Shovan Adhikari. Customers will however need a mobile set that support e-SIM. Existing customers of Telecom who have mobile sets that support e-SIM will have to fill and submit the required form to get the e-SIM. Apart from mobile sets, e-SIM can be used in other wearable devices like smart watches.  

Nepal reported 126 new Covid-19 cases and one death on Thursday. According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 1, 674 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 75 returned positive. Likewise, 2, 116 people underwent antigen tests, of which 51 were tested positive. The Ministry said that 137 infected people recovered from the disease. As of today, there are 2, 129 active cases in the country.

A 60-year-old woman of Madi municipality-1 in Chitwan district died of Japanese Encephalitis. She died after returning home from the hospital. According to health office chief, Durga Dutta Chapagain, a total of nine cases of Japanese Encephalitis have been confirmed so far in the district. Of them, a woman succumbed to Japanese Encephalitis in the district. The deceased was admitted to Bharatpur Hospital on August 22 after she suffered from headache and fever. Out of 22 tests, nine cases of Japanese Encephalitis have been confirmed in the district. According to the office, four cases of Japanese Encephalitis have been detected in Bharatpur Metropolitan City, two in Madi Municipality and each in Rapti, Ratnanagar and Kalika Municipalities. The infection first was detected in the first week of August and JE cases have reached nine till September 3. This is probably the first time the district is tackling the situation to this level, said office chief, Chapagain. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Japanese Encephalitis Virus (JEV) is a flavivirus related to dengue, yellow fever and West Nile viruses, and it spreads by mosquitoes.