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Nepal logged 357 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday.

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 1, 857 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 268 returned positive. Likewise, 1, 500 people underwent antigen tests, of which 89 tested positive.

No one died due to the virus today.

The Ministry said that 62 infected people recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours.

As of today, there are 1, 982 active cases in the country, the Ministry said.

The Indian rupee hit a seventh straight session of record lows on Tuesday as weakness in domestic shares and currencies weighed, but dollar selling intervention by the central bank helped limit further losses, Reuters reported.

The US dollar hovered just above a one-week low reached overnight versus major peers as markets reduced the odds of a percentage-point Federal Reserve rate hike this month.

The partially convertible rupee was trading at 79.93/94 per dollar after hitting a record low of 80.05. The unit had ended at 79.97 on Monday, according to Reuters.

The district reported 213 cases of dengue last fiscal year. Of the total 3,564 tests, this number of people tested positive to the mosquito-borne disease.

According to Health Office Chitwan’s public health officer Gitanjali Dhakal, the figure is less than of the previous fiscal year that recorded 247 cases out of 1,986 tests.

Dengue, a viral infection, is caused by the bite of infected mosquito and female mosquito Aedes aegypti is its primary vector. Fever, reddish eyes, eye pain, headache, stomach pain, joints and muscle pain and laziness are primary symptoms of dengue fever. Dengue is sometimes fatal.

Dengue fever lasts for five to seven days. It can cause a drop in the counts of white blood cells and platelets, leading to the immunity loss.

To stay away from the mosquito and its bite is the major prevention of the disease.

Likewise, there were 268 cases of scrub typhus, out of 3,286 tests, in the district last year. Scrub typhus is a bacterial disease that is transmitted to human by the bite of infected mite. It is caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi.

High fever, reddish eye, couth, vomiting and diarrhea, stomach pain, breathing difficulty, headache, joints and muscle pain, skin rashes and a dark mark at the site of bite are among the symptoms of scrub typhus.

Spain's Health Ministry has said that 510 people died from heat-related causes in the first week of a heatwave when the mercury reached 45 degrees Celsius in some parts of the country, Xinhua reported.

The fatalities were reported by the Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII) on Monday, which forms part of the Ministry, between July 10 and 16, with Saturday the deadliest to date with 150 victims.

According to the ISCIII System of Monitorisation of Daily Mortality, the number of heat-related deaths increased sharply as the heatwave escalated, Xinhua news agency reported.

It said deaths quadrupled from 15 to 60 in the four days from July 10 to 13. The figure then jumped further to 93 last Thursday and 123 on Friday, before reaching a climax of 150 on Saturday.

The toll is feared to rise even further when new figures are published for Sunday.

The heat is especially affecting the elderly, with 321 of the 510 victims aged 85 years or above, 121 between 75 and 84 years of age, and 44 between 65 and 74 years of age.

However, deaths were also reported among the younger population, including two municipal workers in Madrid who died of heatstroke. This prompted the city hall to adopt more flexible working hours, so that workers could avoid working outdoors during the hottest hours of the day.

Among the younger victims were also a fireman and a shepherd, who died in the wildfires that are engulfing Spain as well as some other areas in Southern Europe, according to Xinhua.

This is Spain's second heatwave of the summer. The previous one, from June 11 to 17, caused 829 deaths, according to ISCIII.