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Nepal reported 391 new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday.

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 2, 562 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 340 returned positive. Likewise, 1, 419 people underwent antigen tests, of which 51 were tested positive.

The Ministry said that no one died of the virus in the last 24 hours. The Ministry said that 46 infected people recovered from the disease.

As of today, there are 2, 276 active cases in the country.

In a case of utter negligence by a drinking water bottling plant, insect larvae and algae has been found in a water jar produced by the plant at a time when cholera outbreak is feared in Kathmandu Valley.

This level of negligence was observed during the monitoring of various drinking water bottling plants operated at Jhaukhel, Changunarayan Municipality-3 in Bhaktapur district. The monitoring was conducted under the leadership of Assistant Chief District Officer Madhav Prasad Sharma.

The monitoring team of the District Administration Office, Bhaktapur has destroyed the old bottles and jars with layers of algae inside that were found in the course of monitoring the various drinking water manufacturing companies.

A team comprising representatives of the Department of Food Technology and Quality Control, the Consumers Federation, the District Cottage Industries Office, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and stakeholder organizations, and journalists carried out the monitoring and found negligence on the part of drinking water bottling plants.

The District Administration Office conducted the monitoring after increasing public complaints that worms and algae was found inside the various brands of jars containing drinking water.

The assistant chief district officer Sharma said that old jars numbering in hundreds found in course of onsite monitoring have been destroyed. He said the water bottling plants committing such negligence have been reprimanded and legal action would be initiated if they repeated their negligence.

Sample of water has been collected from two water plants in course of the monitoring and the samples forwarded to the Department for lab examination.

A total of 37 rhinos have died in the Chitwan National Park (CNP) and its buffer zone in the last fiscal year 2021/22.

According to the CNP, two were killed due to poaching and the remaining due to natural causes. CNP Information Officer Ganesh Prasad Timalsina said that among the two rhinos killed in poaching, the horn and hooves of one was intact while those of the next one had been taken away by poachers.

Timalsina said among the dead rhinos, 18 were male, 14 female and the gender of five could not be ascertained. Most of the rhinos died due to old age, getting stuck in swamp, tiger attack and falling in ditches among others.

Altogether 33 rhinos had died in 2020/21 while 44 in 2019/20, the CNP said. CNP, sprawling across 932 square meters of area, has grassland across 10,497 hectare land. Depletion of those grasslands had also contributed to the declining number of rhinos in the CNP.

A total of 752 rhinos were recorded in Nepal in 2021. CNP is home to 694 of them.

A person died and other sustained injuries when two motorbikes collided with each other in Gaushala of Mahottari on Wednesday.

Police said that the motorbike (Province 2-02-003 Pa 7738) collided head-on with another motorbike (Province 2-02-001 Pa 8679) today.

According to the Area Police Office, Gaushala, the deceased has been identified as bike (Province 2-01-001 Pa 8679) rider Bibek Yadav (24) of Aurahi Municipality-2.

Similarly, biker (Province 2-02-003 Pa 7738) rider Krishna Yadav (25) of Rajkhor, Gaushala Municipality-4 was injured in the incident.

Inspector Ranjan Mishra said that Krishna, who was seriously injured in the incident, has been sent to Kathmandu for further treatment.

He said that they have impounded both the bikes.

The Area Police Office, Gaushala said that the body of Bibek has been sent to the District Hospital, Jaleshwor for postmortem.