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Nepal's Covid-19 Infections Cross 100,000 Mark, As Active Cases WITHOUT F EAR OR FAVOUR Nepal’s largest selling English daily Vol XXVIII No. 228 | 8 pages | Rs.5 O O Printed simultaneously in Kathmandu, Biratnagar, Bharatpur and Nepalgunj 35.4 C 6.2 C Saturday, October 10, 2020 | 24-06-2077 Janakpur Jumla Nepal’s Covid-19 infections cross 100,000 mark, 100,676 as active cases strain health-care system 98,617 94,253 The country is headed for more difficult times, public health experts say. 89,263 90,814 86,823 84,570 82,450 79,728 77,817 76,258 74,745 73,394 71,821 70,614 69,301 NATIONAL TALLY ACTIVE CASES 26,684 27,053 25,007 23,507 22,709 21,234 22,219 20,396 20,891 21,830 21,302 19,624 18,437 18,289 18,341 19,019 SEP 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 OCT 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 INFOGRAPHICS: RAJ KUMAR POUDYAL ARJUN POUDEL active Covid-19 cases stood at clothes and celebrate Dashain at The Oli administration’s han- KATHMANDU, OCT 9 100,676. The Health Ministry said home and seek blessings from the dling of the pandemic has been that the country recorded 2,059 elderly people via telephone and poor from the very beginning— Nepal’s coronavirus cases crossed new cases and 10 deaths in the last internet. from January when Nepal report- the 100,000 mark on Friday, with 24 hours. On Thursday, the minis- He also warned that people with ed its first case. When it decided to 600 total deaths, a situation public try said 4,364 new infections were the virus would be jailed if they enforce a lockdown starting March health experts had long warned reported, the highest single-day fail to follow the 14-day home isola- 24, when just two Covid-19 cases about, while the government spike. Twelve deaths were reported tion protocol. were reported, there were expecta- appears clueless on what is its next on that day. “As per the Infectious Disease tions that it would work to improve step to contain the spread. The decline in new infections Act-2020 (1964), authorities could health care facilities, set up quar- Doctors say even more difficult could also be due to the fewer tests put those violating the protocol in antine and isolation facilities and days are ahead as the authorities conducted in the last 24 hours, jail for six months,” said Gautam. increase the number of beds and have given up the fight against the experts say. Compared to the 18,473 “We have made recommendations ventilators. pandemic. polymerase chain reaction tests to the Ministry of Home Affairs During the lockdown period, “New cases have been doubling conducted on Thursday, only 13,279 and the Nepal Police that the senior officials, including the every two weeks or sooner. In the were conducted on Friday. infected people be prevented from prime minister and his ministers, coming days, cases will start to With the country already run- moving freely if they have not however, continued to peddle mis- double within a week, given the ning out of intensive care beds and completed their 14 days of home truths, at times even making exponential rise in cases we are ventilators, the authorities are left isolation and that action be taken unsubstantiated claims that coro- witnessing,” Dr Prabhat Adhikari, with no answers as to how they POST FILE PHOTO against them as per the law.” navirus won’t affect the country. an infectious disease and critical are going to deal with the pandem- As Covid-19 infections are rising, even critical patients are not getting hospital beds. Public health experts say while The Oli administration by and care expert, told the Post. ic whose full effects have now the general public must show some large was in a slumber during the “When the cases increase, the taken hold. On Thursday, Gautam said that “are about to fall conscious”. responsibility—wearing masks lockdown period, experts say. number of patients in need of Dr Jageshwor Gautam, spokes- the trend among people reaching On Friday, instead of attempting properly, using sanitisers and When it lifted the virus restric- intensive care unit beds and venti- person for the Health Ministry, has the hospital even for cough and to provide information on what the avoiding crowded places, tions on July 21, the number of lators will also rise. The situation already become an object of ridi- fever conditions was on the rise government is doing to deal with ensuring people’s safety is the gov- Covid-19 cases had already crossed looks bleak.” cule for the kind of “advice” he is and that they should visit hospitals the worsening situation, Gautam ernment’s prime duty and that it the 17,000 mark. As of Friday, the total number of offering to the general public. only if they “fall unconscious” or “urged” people not to buy new cannot shirk it. >> Continued on page 2 RSS The terminal building of the under-construction Pokhara International Airport with a mountain range in the background. With a new managing director, Nepal Airlines looks set to fly into turbulence The appointment, when there is already an executive chairman, brings a sense of déjà vu when dual power centres brought the flag carrier to a standstill in the past. SANGAM PRASAIN one better. It appointed Prakash secretary Damodar Prasad Gautam KATHMANDU, OCT 9 Poudel, who is also known as Dim submitted a report to reform Nepal Prasad, as the managing director of Airlines, there have been over half a Soon after Tourism Minister Yogesh Nepal Airlines for four years. Poudel dozen reform recommendation reports Bhattarai took office in July last year, was a member of the five-member prepared by committees appointed by he constituted a five-member expert committee under Ghimire. different governments but all of them panel to recommend reforms at Nepal That’s quite a turn of events, say are gathering dust on the shelves. Airlines. observers. There, however, is nothing “Implementing recommendations In September last year, the commit- surprising about this, according to in practice is different from making tee, headed by Sushil Ghimire, a for- them. them,” said Wagle. mer tourism secretary, recommended “It’s not a new thing in Nepal. It But Thursday’s appointment of in its 46-page report immediate reform keeps on happening,” said Bimal Poudel, a chartered accountant by pro- measures for 13 areas. Appointing the Wagle, former chairman of the Public fession with close links with the rul- chief of the ailing national flag carri- Enterprises Board, which was once ing Nepal Communist Party (NCP), er through an open competition, rath- entrusted with the task of appointing has a twist. er than on political preference, was chiefs of public enterprises, like It is unclear who will ultimately call one of them. Nepal Airlines, through competition. the shots–Ghimire as the executive Seven months later, in April this “The reforms are only in paper, not in chairman or Poudel as the managing year, Ghimire himself was appointed practice.” director. Buddhi Sagar Lamichhane, the executive chairman, and he Politicians time and again have joint-secretary at the Tourism accepted the political appointment, made promises to revive Nepal Ministry who is also a board member against what he himself had recom- Airlines, but actually it’s only empty of Nepal Airlines, said that Poudel has mended. words, according to Wagle. been given the executive power, which Then on Thursday, the Cabinet went “Minister Bhattarai has just fol- means the decision-making power, lowed the tradition. Both—the and that the role of Ghimire will be dual power system and political limited as chairman, which is a cere- appointments—are old stories in monial post. Nepal Airlines, followed by every But if past records are anything to successive government, and go by, there could be a clash between that’s gradually killing what was the two top positions in the govern- once Nepal’s finest company,” ment-owned airline company. said Wagle. Back in 2008-2011, Nepal Airlines Today Nepal Airlines has had witnessed a constant internal con- become a highly leveraged com- flict because of the strife between the pany with debt reaching critical two top executives—Sugat Ratna levels of nearly Rs46 billion. Kansakar and captain Kul Bahadur Since 2002, when a high-level Limbu, a pilot at the company. committee led by former chief >> Continued on page 2 C M Y K SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2020 | 02 NATIONAL Chitwan National Park saw dramatic rise in rhino mortality in last three years, report says Since the start of October this year, five rhinos were found dead in the park. NARAYAN SHARMA conservation officer at the park, three and everything other than poaching KAWASOTI (NAWALPUR), OCT 9 rhinos were killed in floods this year. are defined as natural. “These days, rhinos are found most- To accommodate the growing rhino On Thursday, Pem Narayan Kandel, ly in the western part of the park, population, park officials also began director general of the Department of which is near Narayani River. This reviving grasslands in the eastern National Parks and Wildlife has put the rhino population at risk of part of the park in the last few years. Conservation, met with the represent- floods,” said Baral. But this has failed to yield the desired atives of Chitwan National Park, A separate study titled Chitwan effect. Buffer Zone Management Committee National Park Rhino Mortality Report Baral claimed that park officials and other stakeholders after a series (2018)” conducted by the Veterinary have started to decentralise rhinos to of rhino deaths were reported in Initiative for Endangered Wildlife limit the number of fights among them recent years.
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