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A high-tech equipment is to be installed at Nagdhunga – the main entrance to Kathmandu Valley – for scanning and keeping records of the vehicles.

Currently traffic police are daily maintaining hand-written log of the incoming and outgoing vehicles to and from Kathmandu Valley. The traffic police has also been screening suspected vehicles and passengers on ad hoc basis at the main checkpoint.

As informed, Chandragiri municipality has intensified its preparation to place vehicle scanning machine at the main entry point to the federal capital for the first time.

In this connection, the municipality had held dialogue with key stakeholders including high-placed officials of Nepal Police and Department of Roads in the first phase.

'It has become essential to place vehicle scanning machine at Nagdhunga from security perspective of Kathmandu Valley', shared Chandragiri mayor Ghanashyam Giri, adding how long traffic police maintain log in a paper in the present digital age.

The machine can be used to scan person(s) along with vehicles and keep their records as per the need. It is expected to help maintain law and order and also reduce traffic management burden.

The scanning machine costs around Rs 25 million. He informed that the municipality has solicited collaboration with other municipalities of the Valley and concerned stakeholders for machine purchase.

'This is not only necessary for Chandragiri. This will help all municipalities in the Valley and federal government as well. It is expected to ensure smooth traffic management and safety', Mayor Giri further said.

Ghana has confirmed its first two cases of the deadly Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease in the same family as the virus that causes Ebola, BBC reported.

It says both patients died recently in hospital in the southern Ashanti region.

Their samples came back positive earlier this month and have now been verified by a laboratory in Senegal.

Health officials in the West African nation say 98 people are now under quarantine as suspected contact cases.

No treatment yet exists for Marburg – but doctors say drinking plenty of water and treating specific symptoms improves a patient’s chances of survival.

The virus is transmitted to people from fruit bats and spreads between humans through the transmission of bodily fluids.

It is a severe, often fatal illness with symptoms including headache, fever, muscle pains, vomiting blood and bleeding, according to BBC.

Officials are warning people to keep away from caves and to thoroughly cook all meat products before consuming them.

In Africa, previous outbreaks and sporadic cases have been reported in Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda, the WHO says. The first ever Marburg outbreak was in Germany in 1967 where seven people died.

The virus killed more than 200 people in Angola in 2005, the deadliest outbreak on record according to the global health body, BBC reported.

Nepal logged 457 new Covid-19 cases and one death on Monday.

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 2, 341 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 386 returned positive. Likewise, 2, 310 people underwent antigen tests, of which 71 tested positive.

So far, 11, 953 people have lost their lives due to Covid-19 in Nepal.

The Ministry said that 48 infected people recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours.

As of today, there are 1, 776 active cases in the country, the Ministry said.

The Ministry said that 15 are in the intensive care unit while one is on a ventilator.

Additional Inspector General (AIG) Bishwa Raj Pokharel resigned on Monday after he lost a legal battle for the top post of Nepal Police.

He handed over this resignation letter to the Nepal Police headquarters this afternoon.

Earlier on May 2, Pokharel had filed a writ petition against the appointment of Inspector General of Nepal Police.

In the petition, he said that the government appointed Dhiraj Pratap Singh as the IG of Nepal Police flouting the seniority basis.

Pokharel went on leave after the government appointed Singh as the IG of Nepal Police.

Earlier on July 15, a joint bench of acting Chief Justice Deepak Kumar Karki and Justice Kumar Chudal quashed the petition filed by Pokharel, giving validation to the appointment of Singh.