The Finnish government on Thursday extended its COVID-19 travel restrictions from other Schengen area countries until June 27.

India's federal government has finalised arrangements with vaccine manufacturer, Biological-E, to reserve 300 million COVID-19 vaccine doses.

India's COVID-19 tally rose to 28,441,986 on Thursday with 134,154 new cases recorded in the past 24 hours, said the federal health ministry.

As inspection job of the Melamchi tunnel is ongoing, distribution of water in Kathmandu Valley is not likely to happen for a month now.

The MoHP has clarified that there was no any new variant of COVID-19 detected in Nepal as report in the international media. 

Minister for Tourism and Civil Aviation Bhanu Bhakta Dhakal has directed the authorities concerned to reduce the price of aviation fuel.

A total of 5,904 more people have recovered from COVID-19 in last 24 hours.

Nepali expatriates in Bangladesh handed over health equipment and other materials to Ambassador of Nepal to Bangladesh.

The Embassy of Nepal in London stated that it has sent a letter of Daily Mail refuting the baseless news and requesting to correct it.

So far 10 people have been infected with black fungus in the country, confirmed the Ministry of Health and Population.