Butwal: The Butwal Sub-Metropolitan City has decided to put the city under lockdown after a rampant spread of corona infections at the community level.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, a meeting was held by the Covid-19 Crisis Management Committee, chaired by Sub-metropolitan Mayor ShivrajSubedi.<\/p>\n
The meeting made the decision to put Butwal under lockdown starting from 11:45 pm on Thursday, August 13 to 11:45 pm on Friday, August 21. The Sub metropolis has given a time range of 24 hours for those wanting to enter or leave the city.<\/p>\n
Only areas of critical service will remain open during the lockdown period. Transportation and sale of food items such as grains, milk and vegetable produce will also remain open.<\/p>\n
Long-distance vehicles passing through Butwal will be allowed to pass, however, these vehicles will not be permitted to take any passengers.<\/p>\n
\u201cBanks and financial institutions will be allowed to run their offices, and use half of their staff,\u201d said Chief Administrative Officer Sharma.<\/p>\n
Via a press release, Tilottama municipality in Rupandehi has also requested not to operate any services other than the most essential ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Butwal: The Butwal Sub-Metropolitan City has decided to put the city under lockdown after a rampant spread of corona infections at the community level. On Wednesday, a meeting was held by the Covid-19 Crisis Management Committee, chaired by Sub-metropolitan Mayor ShivrajSubedi. The meeting made the decision to put Butwal under lockdown starting from 11:45 pm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nepal"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n