KATHMANDU: With the rapid spread of the second wave of COVID-19 across the country, eight more districts in the country have gone for prohibitory order.
With this, 29 districts in the country have partial or full lockdown meant to break the chain of coronavirus.
Gulmi, Phyutha, Kavre, Gorkha, Bajura and Udayapur districts have issued prohibitory order Saturday, the Ministry of Home Affairs said. Three districts will go in lockdown from Saturday midnight while seven other districts will enforce the prohibitory order from Sunday.
It is said that Udayapur, Pyuthan and Gulmi will have the prohibitory order across the district. Likewise, Morang, Jajarkot and Jhapa district had already enforced prohibitory order to be implemented from this midnight.
Similarly, Salyan, Rukum West and Dadeldhura will have prohibitory orders from 6:00 am on Sunday.
Chief District Officers (CDOs) have been issuing prohibitory orders in the districts after the Ministry of Home Affairs entrusted the concerned CDOs to issue such orders considering the local context of the coronavirus.
As per the Infectious Disease Control Act 1964, the government has given the responsibility to the CDOs to issue prohibitory order in case the hilly and mountainous districts have 200 actives cases of the virus and 500 active cases of the virus in the Kathmandu Valley and Tarai districts.
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