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The health condition of all four tested positive for COVID-19 in the country is normal.The Shukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Prevention hospital director Dr Sagar Raj Bhandari shared that two persons with COVID-19 undergoing treatment at the hospital are in normal health. A 19-year girl who returned from France and a youth from the…

World Health Organization officials Monday said they still recommend people not wear face masks unless they are sick with Covid-19 or caring for someone who is sick."There is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any potential benefit. In fact, there's some evidence to suggest the opposite in…

India's informal workers are the backbone of the big city economy -- constructing houses, cooking food, serving in eateries, delivering takeaways, cutting hair in salons, making automobiles, plumbing toilets and delivering newspapers, among other things. Escaping poverty in their villages, most of the estimated 100 million of them live in…

A Van Gogh painting has been stolen from a museum in the Dutch town of Laren. Police said on Monday there had been a break in at the Singer Laren Museum at 03:15 local time (02:15 GMT).The museum later announced that Van Gogh’s Spring Garden, on loan from the Groninger Museum, was missing.The Singer Laren Museum is closed due to the…

Mainland China reported 31 new coronavirus cases on Sunday (March 29), including one locally transmitted infection, the country's National Health Commission said, dropping from 45 cases a day earlier.The commission said in a statement on Monday that four new deaths were reported, putting the cumulative death toll from the coronavirus…

Abbott has received emergency use authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the fastest available molecular point-of-care test for the detection of novel coronavirus (COVID-19), delivering positive results in as little as five minutes and negative results in 13 minutes.What makes this test so different is…

Nepal has rescued nearly 1,000 foreign tourists stranded in remote mountain regions across the country after authorities imposed a lockdown to stem the spread of coronavirus pandemic, an official said Sunday.An estimated 10,000 tourists from Europe, Australia, South Korea, the U.S., and Canada have been stuck in trekking routes and other…

The high-level coordination committee decided on Sunday to extend the nationwide lockdown by a week, until April 7, and the ban on international flights until April 15.The high-level committee for the control and prevention of Covid-19, headed by Deputy Prime Minister Ishwar Pokhrel, took the decisions in view of the rise in the number of…

The Chinese government has provided medical aid to Nepal government on Sunday to combat the novel coronavirus.Medical goods including personal protective equipment (PPE) for the health workers have arrived from China. The medical goods were transported on a chartered flight of the Nepal Airlines Corporation.The NAC widebody aircraft…

Abbott Laboratories won U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for its molecular test for the Coronavirus strain COVID-19, which the company says can deliver “positive results in as little as five minutes and negative results in 13 minutes.”The FDA’s “emergency use authorization” awarded to Abbott’s ID NOW COVID-19 test is the latest in…