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A man attacked his wife with acid in Bhaktapur on Sunday.

According to the District Police Office, Bhaktapur, Shyam Gubhaju attacked Puja Gubhaju (60) of Dadhikot, Suryabinayak-4 with the acid.

Police said that they have arrested Shyam for investigation.

Puja, who sustained injuries in the incident, has been sent to the Kirtipur Hospital for treatment, police said.

The official global death toll from COVID-19 is on the verge of eclipsing 6 million — underscoring that the pandemic, now entering its third year, is far from over, Associated Press reported.

The milestone is the latest tragic reminder of the unrelenting nature of the pandemic even as people are shedding masks, travel is resuming and businesses are reopening around the globe. The death toll, compiled by Johns Hopkins University, stood at 5,997,994 as of Sunday afternoon.

Remote Pacific islands, whose isolation had protected them for more than two years, are just now grappling with their first outbreaks and deaths, fueled by the highly contagious omicron variant.

Hong Kong, which is seeing deaths soar, is testing its entire population of 7.5 million three times this month as it clings to mainland China’s “zero-COVID” strategy.

As death rates remain high in Poland, Hungary, Romania and other Eastern European countries, the region has seen more than 1 million refugees arrive from war-torn Ukraine, a country with poor vaccination coverage and high rates of cases and deaths, according to the Associated Press.

And despite its wealth and vaccine availability, the United States is nearing 1 million reported deaths on its own.

Death rates worldwide are still highest among people unvaccinated against the virus, said Tikki Pang, a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore’s medical school and co-Chair of the Asia Pacific Immunization Coalition.

“This is a disease of the unvaccinated — look what is happening in Hong Kong right now, the health system is being overwhelmed,” said Pang, the former director of research policy and cooperation with the World Health Organization. “The large majority of the deaths and the severe cases are in the unvaccinated, vulnerable segment of the population.”

It took the world seven months to record its first million deaths from the virus after the pandemic began in early 2020. Four months later another million people had died, and 1 million have died every three months since, until the death toll hit 5 million at the end of October. Now it has reached 6 million — more than the populations of Berlin and Brussels combined, or the entire state of Maryland, Associated Press reported.

But despite the enormity of the figure, the world undoubtedly hit its 6 millionth death some time ago. Poor record-keeping and testing in many parts of the world has led to an undercount in coronavirus deaths, in addition to excess deaths related to the pandemic but not from actual COVID-19 infections, like people who died from preventable causes but could not receive treatment because hospitals were full.

Edouard Mathieu, head of data for the Our World in Data portal, said that — when countries’ excess mortality figures are studied — as many as nearly four times the reported death toll have likely died because of the pandemic, according to the Associated Press.

Nepal logged 68 new Covid-19 cases and two deaths on Sunday.

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 3, 135 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 54 returned positive. Likewise, 1, 794 people underwent antigen tests, of which 14 tested positive.

The Ministry said that 538 infected people recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours.

As of today, there are 6, 461 active cases in the country. 

The Tanahun District Court has remanded actor Paul Shah in police custody for 12 days.

Shah was arrested on the charge of raping singer Samikshya Adhikari (17) on February 27. He turned himself in to police at the District Police Office, Tanahun.

Following his arrest, he was remanded in police custody for seven days.

The district court gave permission to keep him in police custody for 12 more days after police sought time for further investigation, DSP Yuvaraj Khadka of the District Police Office said.

Singer Adhikari had filed a rape against Shah in the District Police Office, Tanahaun a few days ago.

Based on the complaint, the District Police Office, Tanahun taking the permission from the District Court issued an arrest warrant against actor Shah.