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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.

Air service in Baitadi remained closed for the past six months due to bad weather and a lack of passengers, said the airport authorities. Earlier, the Summit Air had been operating a flight between Dhangadhi-Baitadi-Dhangadhi once a week (Thursdays), but its flight has been closed since March 24, said Krishna Dutta Bhatta, the contact person for the Summit Air. As a result, people have been affected especially at a time when Dashain festival is around the corner. It takes at least eight hours on a public vehicle to reach Dhangadhi from Baitadi. At present, the airline has been operating flights elsewhere at tourist destinations where there is the availability of passengers easily, he said. "The airline conducted flights at Lukla and Jomsom for two or three months. A plan was afoot to operate flights between Dhangadhi-Baitadi-Dhangadhi. But bad weather and a lack of passengers affected it," he said, adding that now, the flight between the routes would resume from the third week of September.