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Nepal's Covid-19 Death Toll Crosses 1,000 Mark WITHOUT F EAR OR FAVOUR Nepal’s largest selling English daily Vol XXVIII No. 248 | 8 pages | Rs.5 O O Printed simultaneously in Kathmandu, Biratnagar, Bharatpur and Nepalgunj 31.7 C 4.9 C Wednesday, November 04, 2020 | 19-07-2077 Biratnagar Jumla Nepal’s Covid-19 death toll crosses 1,000 mark Public health experts warn of a catastrophic situation ahead if the authorities still fail to take preventive measures immediately. ARJUN POUDEL governments in Kathmandu Valley 110 0 KATHMANDU, NOV 3 told the Post that they have stopped 1004 tracing contacts after swab samples With 20 more deaths in the last 24 10 0 0 of people who came in close contact hours, Nepal’s coronavirus toll Covid-19 deaths in 937 with infected people were returned by crossed the 1,000 mark on Tuesday, the National Public Health Laboratory. the Ministry of Health and Population 9 0 0 the country Experts had also taken part in a said. discussion held at the Covid-19 Crisis But if the data of Nepal Army, Management Centre’s meeting and which has been managing the bodies 8 0 0 given a presentation about the loom- of the people infected with coronavi- ing risks and measures needed to con- rus for their last rites, is anything to 694 trol the spread of the pandemic. go by, the number of Covid-19 deaths 7 0 0 “Even Prime Minister KP Sharma has exceeded 1,400. Oli must be aware of the suggestions “Since there is a variation in num- we provided,” said Koirala. “Infections 6 0 0 bers, a three-member panel has been will not come under control and formed to verify the data and it is 498 deaths from the infection will not working on a war footing,” said Nepal 50 0 decline even if we stop testing and Army spokesperson Brigadier contact tracing.” General Santosh Ballav Paudel. Doctors said that authorities are not Public health experts are more wor- 4 0 0 371 doing sufficient tests, which is consid- ried about the fact that the number of ered responsible for the spread of deaths has been increasing rapidly. infection. They said that over 20,000 The number of deaths got more 3 0 0 tests should be performed every day in than double in the month of 228 Kathmandu Valley and 10,000 in other September, and in October it almost parts of the country, if the contagion doubled again, according to Health 2 0 0 is to be brought under control. Ministry data. “We have been laying stress on one 102 “Cases have doubled in September specific thing since the very begin- 10 0 56 and October and will triple in 39 ning—test, trace and isolate and 19 November, and the situation will be 1 increase the capacity of hospitals. catastrophic in the coming days if the 0 This is still relevant today to control authorities do not take containment the virus spread,” Dr Kiran Pandey, a measures immediately,” Dr Janak N OV 3 consultant physician, told the Post. S E P 15 S E P 3 0 M A Y 16 OCT 15 OCT 3OCT 1 A U G 15 A U G 3 1 J U L Y 15 J U L Y 3 1 Koirala, an infectious disease expert, J U N E 14 “The ongoing pandemic has exposed told the Post. POST INFOGRAPHICS the lack of seriousness in our work “I too wonder why the authorities Nepal reported its first Covid-19 death on May 16. In September and October, deaths doubled, and with winter setting in, fatalities may skyrocket, experts say. and our implementation capacity.” concerned are not doing the things, It is not difficult to convert some which are doable.” the end of October. of the public health experts invited to October 5 decided to charge people for responding to distress calls of the rel- unused buildings into isolation facili- Nepal reported its first coronavirus Sixty-seven deaths have been the Health Ministry last month, tests and treatment as a result of atives of serious patients. ties, set up oxygen supply, increase case in the third week of January. But recorded in the last three days—23 on almost everyone had warned of diffi- which the number of tests have been Dr Jageshwar Gautam, spokesper- tests, make contact tracing effective, the first Covid-19 death came months Sunday, 24 on Monday and 20 on cult days ahead and recommended going down. From a high of 18,473 son for the Health Ministry, however, enforce safety measures strictly, later on May 16. The country went into Tuesday. restrictions in Covid-19 hotspots tests on October 8, the average num- said that contact tracing has not according to Pandey. lockdown on March 24. But when the As of Tuesday, the total number of including Kathmandu Valley. ber of tests over the last seven days stopped, even if the ministry has Dr Bhagwan Koirala, chairman of government decided to lift the lock- Covid-19 deaths stood at 1,004. Koirala said they had also recom- has gone down to 11,417. stopped providing free tests. Nepal Medical Council, the national down on July 21, 40 people had died of The total number of cases stands at mended increasing the number of With the halt to free testing and “How is it possible to conduct over regulatory body of medical doctors, the virus. In the remaining 10 days of 179,614 with 3,114 people testing posi- tests, making contact tracing more treatment, contact tracing has also 10,000 tests every day if contact trac- said that fundamental principles for July, 16 more people succumbed to the tive nationwide in the last 24 hours. effective, isolating infected people decreased significantly. Even as the ing has stopped?” said Gautam. “It is prevention and control and mitigation disease. There were 372 serious patients in and increasing the capacity of hospi- number of infections rose—and with not important who said what. The of the infection have not changed. At the end of August, the number of intensive care units and 68 on ventila- tals as well as ensuring proper oxygen them the number of serious cases too Health Ministry is doing what it is “It will be suicidal if we let the dis- deaths stood at 228 which went up to tor support on Tuesday. supply. rose, officials tasked with the job of supposed to do.” ease spread without doing anything,” 498 at the end of September and 937 at According to Koirala, who was one Instead, a Cabinet meeting held on case management also stopped On the other hand, several local he told the Post. POST PHOTO: BEEJU MAHARJAN Chet Kumari Chitrakar prints images used for Laxmi Puja and Bhai Tika at Ya Chhen, Bhaktapur. She has been in the business for the past 45 years. This Tihar she plans to prepare 1,000 images. Trump or Biden? Americans vote after a bitter campaign under Covid-19 shadow More than 99 million Americans have already voted early in person or by mail and experts predict the vote could reach 160 million, far exceeding the 138 million ballots cast in 2016. REUTERS WILMINGTON, DEL/WASHINGTON, NOV 3 Americans headed to the polls on Tuesday to choose either incumbent Donald Trump or challenger Joe Biden as their next president, after a tumultuous four years under the busi- nessman-turned-politician that have left the country as deeply divided as at any time in recent history. Biden, the Democratic former vice president and a career politician, has had a strong and consistent lead in national polls. But the Republican Trump is close in enough swing states to possibly REUTERS piece together the 270 state-by-state Voters line up at a polling station to vote in the 2020 US presidential election in Philadelphia. Electoral College votes needed ble unrest. Several cities are boarding to hold on to the presidency, up buildings in anticipation of possi- which he won in a surprise ble protests, including around the 2016 election result despite los- White House and in New York City. ing the popular vote to Democrat Polls opened in some Eastern Hillary Clinton by nearly 3 mil- states at 6 am EST (1100 GMT). The lion ballots. most closely watched results will However, it may be days before start to trickle in after 7 pm EST the result is known, especially if (2400 GMT) when polls close in states legal challenges focused on post- such as Georgia, though definitive al ballots are accepted in the national results could take days if the event of a tight race. contest is tight. There is also fear about possi- >> Continued on page 6 C M Y K WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 04, 2020 | 02 NATIONAL Supplier under investigation for illegal export of subsidised rice Police arrested the accused on Tuesday and have remanded him in custody for seven days for a probe. KALENDRA SEJUWAL said Rajendra Bhatta, superintendent of SURKHET, NOV 3 police in Surkhet. According to him, the police recovered 60 quintals of rice (200 The District Police Office in Surkhet has sacks of 30kg each) in the godown. initiated investigation into the illegal “Investigation is underway to locate export of subsidised rice meant for around 750 quintals of rice,” Bhatta said. Karnali Province. Last Thursday, police According to the Food Management and had seized a truck carrying 250kgs of sub- Trading Company Ltd, Sharma had 1,000 sidised rice at Subbakuna Check Post in quintals of Japanese rice brought from Surkhet. The rice, originally to be sup- the company.
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