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Dengue that is transmitted through the bites of infected mosquitoes is increasing in Kavre district.

A case of dengue was detected in Panchkhal around a month ago. Now it has been confirmed among nine persons in three local levels, the district health office said.

A person infected with dengue was detected in Panchkhal, Kavre last month after three years since its first case was identified.

The person detected with dengue was from outside the district. He was found infected with dengue while testing Malaria at a local health facility. Now, he is receiving treatment at a hospital in Kathmandu, the office said.

According to Office Chief Dr Puruswottam Sedai, dengue has so far been detected in three local levels of the district.

"Nine persons have been detected with Dengue in almost a month. We are in a campaign to search and destroy mosquito eggs and larva", Sedai said.

Among the infected, three are from Dhulikhel, two from Panauti and one from Banepa. Likewise, Dolakha has one and Sindhupalchowk has two dengue infected cases.

As informed, they are receiving treatment at a hospital in Kathmandu.

Meanwhile, the district health office and municipal health team are carrying out monitoring at local level to identify the sources of dengue infection.

Likewise, the infected are being monitored and treated along with other anti-dengue transmission activities, the office added.

"We are seriously investigating the cases of dengue transmission in the areas including headquarters Dhulikhel", Sedhai said. Health workers are kept on high alert immediately after the first case of dengue was detected.

The rapid team of the office is planning to intensify monitoring and sample tests in three areas of Kavre so as to check mass transmission of dengue.

Likewise, the office is planning to mobilize teams with anti-dengue rapid test kits at all health facilities in the district.

It may be noted that Kavre had first witnessed dengue infection among six people in August 2019.

Locals have announced that they would not let government authorities dumb garbage of Kathmandu Valley in Sisdole and Banchare Danda.

Organizing a press conference in Kathmandu on Thursday, locals said that they would not allow the authorities to dump garbage in Banchare Danda from August 17.

Shreeram Dhungana, Coordinator of the Banchare Danda Struggle Committee, said that they would not let the garbage of Kathmandu Valley dumb in Banchare Danda until their demands are met.

They accused the government and the Kathmandu Metropolitan City of not taking any step to implement the agreement signed on June 10.

The Struggle Committee concluded that the government has been betraying the locals of Sisdole and Banchare Danda over and over again.

The weather will be partly to generally cloudy throughout the country with rain in most of the places until Saturday.

Meteorologist at the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, Ganga Nagarkoti shared that it would be partly to generally cloudy with chances of light to moderate rain in most of the places of the country until Saturday as the monsoon is active.

"There is possibility of heavy rain at one or two places of Province 1, Madhes, Bagmati, Gandaki and Lumbini provinces," she said.

The monsoon low pressure trough is located around the normal position to the west and somewhat towards north than the normal position towards east.

The Department said that there are chances of light to moderate rain along with thunder and lightning at some places and of heavy rain at one or two places of Province no 1, Bagmati, Gandaki and Lumbini provinces in the next 24 hours.

Department has urged everyone to adopt precaution as there is the risk of soil erosion, landslide and debris flow as well as rise in water level in the rivers and seasonal rivulets in these regions, affecting the daily life and the transport services.

Almost one million people in a suburb of Wuhan - China's central city where the coronavirus was first recorded - have been placed under lockdown, BBC reported.

Jiangxia district residents have been ordered to stay inside their homes or compounds for three days after four asymptomatic Covid cases were detected.

China follows a "zero Covid" strategy, including mass testing, strict isolation rules and local lockdowns.

This has resulted in far fewer deaths than in many other countries.

But the strategy is facing growing opposition as people and businesses continue to face the strain of restrictions.

In Wuhan, a city of 12 million people, regular testing uncovered two asymptomatic cases two days ago.

Two more cases were found through contact tracing, and shortly after the lockdown order was issued.

Wuhan became known around the world in early 2020 as the first place scientists detected the new coronavirus - and the first city to be put under harsh restrictive measures. 

At the time, the wider world was shocked by the strict lockdown, but many cities and countries were soon forced to impose their own similar measures, according to BBC.

Later, China became known as a Covid success story, with restrictions lifted much earlier than in many other countries. 

But that has changed again, with China pursuing a "zero Covid" strategy resulting in frequent local lockdowns, rather than trying to live with the virus as in most other countries. 

Last month, Shanghai - China's giant financial capital with nearly 25 million residents - finally emerged from a strict two-month lockdown, though residents are adapting to a "new normal" of frequent mass testing. 

A rising number of Chinese companies and factory production lines are maintaining a closed-loop system in order to follow the goal of completely eliminating Covid.

In order to keep parts of the economy open, employees have been told to live temporarily in their workplaces to minimise contact between work and home.

Earlier this week, scientists said there was "compelling evidence" that Wuhan's Huanan seafood and wildlife market was at the centre of the Covid outbreak.  

Two peer-reviewed studies re-examined information from the initial outbreak in the city.

One of the studies shows that the earliest known cases were clustered around that market. The other uses genetic information to track the timing of the outbreak. 

It suggests there were two variants introduced into humans in November or early December 2019, BBC reported.

Together, the researchers said this evidence suggests that the virus was present in live mammals that were sold at Huanan market in late 2019. 

They said it was transmitted to people who were working or shopping there in two separate "spill-over events", where a human contracted the virus from an animal.

One of the researchers involved, virologist Prof David Robertson from the University of Glasgow, told BBC News that he hoped the studies would "correct the false record that the virus came from a lab".

China has seen more than 2.2 million cases and 14,720 deaths since the pandemic began in 2019, according to America's Johns Hopkins University, according to BBC.