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Senior orthopedic surgeon Dr Govinda KC has  begun a hunger strike in Dhangadhi. He started his hunger strike at the LN Chowk-based Krishna Temple in Dhangadhi, putting forth seven-point demands. Dr KC has demanded that the number of doctors in government hospitals should be increased based on the number of beds and half of the budget of the local level should be allocated to health and education among others. He said that he was compelled to stage the hunger strike after the government did not heed to his demands within the given time frame.    

Nepal reported 171 new Covid-19 cases and one death on Monday. According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 2, 600 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 127 returned positive. Likewise, 2, 359 people underwent antigen tests, of which 52 were tested positive. As of today, there are 2, 271 active cases in the country.

The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) has decided to launch a nationwide campaign to control dengue in view of rapidly growing cases in the country of late. Over 7,500 dengue patients have been reported in the country since its breakout recently, according to the MoHP. The MoHP wrote to the Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration so as to mobilize all 753 local levels to control the mosquito-borne viral disease. The 'Search and Destroy Larva' campaign will be implemented to find out places where mosquitoes larvae hide, and destroy them to prevent and control dengue, said Bhim Prasad Sapkota, Chief Public Health Administrator at the MoHP. Each local level will launch a drive that will encourage people in their locality to search or find the places where dengue-carrying mosquitoes lay eggs and destroy them. The drive will be launched for around 10 minutes every Saturday at 10:00 AM, shared Sapkota. Local communities and people's representatives will coordinate efforts to implement the campaign in each household every Saturday, according to Sapkota. All the health posts and health institutions are asked to send the details of the dengue patients to the Ministry's Epidemiology and Diseases Control Division.

An elderly man was killed in a tiger attack at Madhuban Municipality-2 in Bardiya district. The deceased, identified as Jhotharu Tharu (61) of Ambarpur in the municipality, was grazing buffaloes in the local Kushminiya community forest when the tiger attacked him, said the police. Tharu, who had gone missing since Sunday, was found dead in the forest today morning. Following a police complaint lodged by the victim's family, a joint team of Nepal Police, Armed Police Force, Nepal Army, local government, Division Forest Office, Bardiaya and local people launched a search and found him dead. The body of Tharu was found in pieces, said the police.