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Three more persons have been detected with cholera in Kathmandu Valley on Friday.

With this, the number of people suffering from cholera has reached 17, the Ministry of Health and Population said.

Among them, 12 are men and five are women. 

Lakpa Sherpa set a record by scaling Mt Makalu three times in 16 days.

Mt Makalu, which lies in Makalu Rural Municipality of Sankhuwasabha district, is 8, 485 meters.

He successfully stood atop the mountain on May 12, 20 and 28, 2022.

Sherpa, however, could not complete the fourth ascent at the same time due to bad weather.

“I could not complete the fourth ascent and was compelled to return to the base due to bad weather,” Shepa said, adding, “This is a world record and I think it would be written in the Guinness Book of World Records.”

Sherpa (30) said that he climbed the mountain not for the record but to identify his village and place.

He scaled the mountain three times in 16 days with the help of Seven Summit Treks.

Before this, Sherpa has climbed Mt Makalu two times, Mt Everest one time, Mt Manaslu two times and Lhotse one time.

Sherpa, who is also the field manager of Seven Summit Treks, has successfully scaled Mt Amadablam, world’s technical mountain, six times.

Nepal reported 50 new Covid-19 cases on Friday.

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 1, 467 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 35 returned positive. Likewise, 1, 347 people underwent antigen tests, of which 15 were tested positive.

The Ministry said that no one died of the virus in the last 24 hours. The Ministry said that 18 infected people recovered from the disease.

As of today, there are 297 active cases in the country.

India has raised its basic import duty on gold to 12.5% from 7.5%, the government said in a notification on Friday, as the world's second biggest consumer of the precious metal tries to dampen its demand, Reuters reported.

India fufills most of its gold demand through imports, which were putting pressure on the rupee INR=IN which hit a record low earlier this week.