HETAUDA: The Churiyamai transit point on the East-West Highway — the entry point to Bagmati State from State-2 has been closed from today.
The Makawanpur district COVID-19 prevention command post has decided to close movement of vehicles and people to Hetauda via Churiyamai transit after the spread of coronavirus infection in districts of State-2 adjoining the Bagmati province.
Makawanpur District Coordination Committee chief Raghunath Khulal said the stakeholders’ meeting decided to make the lockdown more stringent through the Command Post.
Meanwhile, the Command Post has also decided to intensify the security check and make it stringent at transit points with other districts as well.
It has decided to allow grocery and cooking gas shops to operate till 9 am.
Similarly, the medicine, veterinary and agricultural goods shops will be allowed to open the whole day.
However, the meat shops and vegetable market would be completely shut from Wednesday and the banks would be allowed to open from 10 am to 3 pm by maintaining social distancing.
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