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The air service in Humla has remained disrupted for four days due to bad weather. Flights from Nepalgunj and Surkhet have not arrived here due to thick clouds and continuous rain, the Civil Aviation Authority Office, Humla said.

The supply of essential commodities has also been disrupted due to the flight disruption. A shortage of cooking oil, sugar and other essentials has been seen in Simkot, local traders said. According to Bir Bahadur Singh, a local of Simkot Rural Municipality-7, candidates preparing for the teacher license examinations have been hit as they cannot travel to Nepalgunj, Surkhet or Bardiya to attend the impending exams.

The Tara Air, Summit Air and Nepal Airlines Corporation have not conducted flights to Simkot for four days while the Sita Air has not done so since two days, the Civil Aviation Authority, Humla said.

The cases of dengue have been confirmed in some places of Lalitpur district.

According to the District Health Office chief Dr Satish Bista, the cases of dengue fever have been detected at wards 5 and 14 of Lalitpur metropolis and at some wards of Mahalaxmi municipality in the district.

With the detection of dengue patients at Manbhawan, Kumaripati, Tikhidewal and Mahalaxmi, we have launched the mosquito search and destroy campaign in the given areas. So far, the district reports 31 confirmed cases of dengue, according to him.

The office urges the people to keep their house balcony to house surroundings including yard and garden neat and clean, and to intervene in stagnant ditch and water in and around the house to reduce the risk of infection.

The office, the District Administration Office, Lalitpur and the local governments have mobilised a team for the sanitation in the areas reporting the dengue cases. Dengue is a mosquito-borne illness and according to the UN, the primary vectors that transmit the disease are Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.

In view of increasing COVID-19 cases, the Ministry of Health and Population has managed COVID-19 treatment in all seven provinces by designating hospitals.

Seventeen federal and provincial hospitals in the provinces have been selected for the purpose, said Dr Samir Kumar Adhikari, joint secretary for the Ministry.

As per this management, in Province 1, Koshi Hospital, Biratnagar and B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan have to take care of COVID-19 patients. Similarly, in Madhes Province, Janakpur Provincial Hospital, Janakpur and Narayani Hospital, Birgunj will take care of infected people.

In Bagmati, infected people will be provided medical treatment at Shukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital, Teku, Kathmandu; Bharatpur Hospital, Chitwan; Bir Hospital, Kathmandu; Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu; Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Lalitpur and in Gandaki Province at Pokhara Academy of Health Sciences, Pokhara and Dhaulagiri Hospital, Baglung.

Likewise, in Lumbini Province, Lumbini Provincial Hospital, Butwal and Bheri Hospital, Nepalgunj will take care of infected people while in Karnali Province, Karnali Academy of Health Sciences, Jumla and Surkhet Provincial Hospital, Birendranagar. In Sudurpaschim Province, Seti Provincial Hospital, Dhangadhi and Dadeldhura Hospital will treat COVID-19 patients.

Four members of a family were found dead at Padamsal in Kavresthali of Tarekeshwor Municipality, Kathmandu on Monday.

The Kathmandu Metropolitan Police Range, Kathmandu said that Dinesh Pandey (41), a permanent resident of Gorkha, his wife Sunita Pandey (39), daughter Ashika Pandey (13) and son Ashik Pandey (8) 

Locals informed the police administration after Pandey’s daughter Ashika did not come to the school. She was supposed to go to school at 8 am.

Police were informed that the doors and the windows of the house were closed.

A police team from the Metropolitan Police Circle, Balaju was immediately deployed to the incident site.

When police reached the incident site, the doors and the windows of the house were found locked from inside, it has been learnt.

According to locals, Sunita was preparing to go to the UK.

Police suspected that Dinesh might have killed himself after murder other members of the family.

Police said that they are looking into the case.