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Minister for Foreign Affairs Narayan Khadka and Ambassador of Israel to Nepal Hanan Goder-Goldberger held a meeting on Wednesday.

During the meeting, the duo decided to establish a joint working team to prepare a bilateral agreement for sending Nepali nationals to work in the construction sector in Israel, read a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

They also expressed their satisfaction over the completion of all the necessary processes with regard to the selection of auxiliary workers in the caregiving sector and announced that the first batch of 99 workers in this sector will leave for Israel today.

More than 1,000 workers selected for this category are scheduled to leave for Israel in coming weeks.

Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC), the state-owned monopoly, hiked the prices of petroleum products.

The NOC has decided to increase Rs 3 per litre each in petrol, diesel and kerosene.

As per the new revised rate, the petrol will now cost Rs 131 per litre and diesel and kerosene will cost Rs 112 per litre.

The NOC has also decided to increase the price of aviation fuel for domestic airlines by Rs 5 and international carriers by $100 per kilo liter.

Now, the aviation fuel for domestic airlines and foreign companies will cost Rs 106 per litre and $995 per kilo litre.

The NOC, however, has not increased the price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG).

Nepal recorded 11,352 new Covid-19 cases and four deaths on Wednesday. 
According to the Ministry of Health and Population, the infected rate in the country has reached 52.6 percent. 
As per the latest data provided by the ministry, a total of 23,409 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours of which 11,352 people were tested positive. 
As many as 613 infected people have recovered from the disease.  
 

As many as 41 laboratories across the nation have been found not conducting the Covid-19 tests.

The Ministry of Health and Population said that Nobel Medical College Teaching Hospital in Biratnagar, Gajendra Narayan Singh Hospital in Rajbiraj, Province Public Health Laboratory in Janakpur, Kalaiya Hospital, Malangawa Hospital, Bir Hospital, Star Hospital, Nepal Korea Friendship Municipality Hospital, BP Koirala Memorial Cancer Hospital, Chitwan, Trishuli Hospital, Bhaktapur Hospital , Janamaitri Hospital and Shahid GangaLal Hospital among others are the 41 government and private laboratories which have not been conducting the tests.

National Public Health Laboratory had given permission to 104 government and private laboratories to conduct the Covid-19 tests.