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Nepal logged 1, 386 new Covid-19 cases and 11 deaths on Sunday. 

With this, the country's active caseload mounted to 1,100,689. Similarly, the death toll has climbed to 11,614. 

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 6,443 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 1,183 returned positive. Likewise, 2,808 people underwent antigen tests, of which 203 tested positive.

The Ministry said that 8,704 infected people recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours.

As of today, there are 45,248 active cases in the country. 

The Ministry said that 43,932 people are staying in home isolation while 1, 316 are in institutionalized isolation.

Among them, 268 are in the Intensive Care Unit while 46 are on ventilators.

Police on Sunday arrested three cadres of Youth Association Nepal (YAN), youth wing of the main opposition CPN-UML, for releasing black balloons outside the office of the Chief Minister in Gandaki Province.

The detainees have been identified as photo journalist Sanjay Shakya, Hari Adhikari and Tshering Phonchuk Thakuri.

Gandaki Province Chairman and YAN Central Secretary Mahendra Gurung said that they released the balloons as per the circular issued by the Association.

YAN representatives of Gandaki and Kaski Provinces and Centre released the balloons this afternoon.

They demanded that the government roll back its decision to hike the price of petroleum products.

Police on Saturday arrested two Indian nationals with 15 gram brown sugar from Mechinagar, Jhapa.

The arrestees have been identified as Mohammad Sultan (25) and Ranjit Ganesh (27) of Chunilal village in Darjeeling, India, DSP Basanta Pathak, Spokesperson of the District Police Office, Jhapa said.

A patrol team from Jamirgadhi Police Post and Armed Police Force (BOP), Jamirgadhi arrested them with the banned substance yesterday.

Police said that they have taken the duo have been kept at the Area Police Office, Dhulabari for further investigation. RSS

The Karnali Province government is preparing to send a helicopter to rescue those people trapped by snowfall at different parts of Gagra alpine in Jumla.

Chief Minister Jeevan Bahadur Shahi has taken initiations to rescue 55 people left stranded at Gagra.

“We are reported that snow up to five feet has piled up at Gagra and the situations provided no ground for the helicopter to land in. We are going to drop foodstuffs at the site immediately to save them from hunger,” he said.

According to one Surat Bahadur Shahi of Tatopani Rural Municipality-8 of Jumla, 55 people were left stranded at Gagra, Adiodar, Khotisalla and Dhwani Patan. They had been there to collect Setak Chini (Moringa Oleifera), locally known as Khiraula.

As Shahi reported, his family member Jaikuwanra and Mun Bahadur Rawat of Barhagaun, Tatopani-6 have already frozen to death in the snow.

Jumla’s Chief District Officer Bijaya Prasai said the efforts were on to rescue them in the coordination of the Tatopani Rural Municipality and the Province government.

According to Rural Municipality chief administrative officer Milan Poudyal, they tried to reach the people trapped in snow with food and other materials to save them from cold, but in vain. RSS