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Nepal logged 457 new Covid-19 cases and one death on Monday.

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 2, 341 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 386 returned positive. Likewise, 2, 310 people underwent antigen tests, of which 71 tested positive.

So far, 11, 953 people have lost their lives due to Covid-19 in Nepal.

The Ministry said that 48 infected people recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours.

As of today, there are 1, 776 active cases in the country, the Ministry said.

The Ministry said that 15 are in the intensive care unit while one is on a ventilator.

Additional Inspector General (AIG) Bishwa Raj Pokharel resigned on Monday after he lost a legal battle for the top post of Nepal Police.

He handed over this resignation letter to the Nepal Police headquarters this afternoon.

Earlier on May 2, Pokharel had filed a writ petition against the appointment of Inspector General of Nepal Police.

In the petition, he said that the government appointed Dhiraj Pratap Singh as the IG of Nepal Police flouting the seniority basis.

Pokharel went on leave after the government appointed Singh as the IG of Nepal Police.

Earlier on July 15, a joint bench of acting Chief Justice Deepak Kumar Karki and Justice Kumar Chudal quashed the petition filed by Pokharel, giving validation to the appointment of Singh.

Three dengue cases have been detected in Kavrepalanchok district after three years, according to health workers.

A 68-year-old man of Panauti Municipality-5 in the district infected with the virus is receiving treatment at Dhulikhel Hospital for the past two days, said Purushottam Timalsina, chief of health section at Panauti. His health condition is improving, he added.

Similarly, a man infected with the virus from Dhulikhel is under care, said the district health office, Dhulikhel. Two weeks ago, a dengue case in Panchkhal was also reported.

Following this, a joint team from the district health office and the municipal health office is today scheduled to reach the source of the infection, destroy mosquito eggs and larva under the ‘search and destroy campaign’, he said.

“We have taken the disease occurring very seriously. Efforts are on to control it,” said Dr Purushottam Sedhain, chief of the district health office.

Police have arrested an Indian in possession of pharmaceutical drugs from Nagdhunga.

A team deployed from the Metropolitan Police Division, Nagdhunga apprehended Bibek Kumar (18) of Bihar, India from a commuter bus (Ba 4 Kha 5144) heading towards Kathmandu from Gaushala, Mahottari during a regular security check.

Police said that they have confiscated 700 ampules of Diazepam, 700 ampules of Phenergan, 700 ampules of Nurofen and an Adhar Card from his possession.

Further investigation into the case is underway, police said.