lockdown in nepal

Lockdown Eases: What is Open and What is Closed?

Here’s a list of the services that will now resume/continue operations in the first phase

  • All health-care services
  • All agricultural, livestock-related activities
  • Manufacturing Industries
  • Construction works
  • Waste Management
  • Banks and Financial Institutions, Cooperatives, Insurance companies
  • Development Projects
  • Transportation and sale of essential services such as medicine, food, fruits and vegetables, dairy, poultry, water, beverages, petroleum products
  • Fire Brigade, Ambulance
  • Electricity, Information and Communication, Postal Services
  • Excavation
  • Take away food services from restaurants
  • Hotels providing quarantine services, and transportation for the same
  • Workshops (electric, machinery, vehicles)
  • Stationery
  • Forestry and Nursery related activities
  • Private vehicles (odd-even rule) and pedestrian movement
  • All government offices, educational institutes’ offices/administration, private offices will resume work on June 15, although in two shifts and with 50 per cent staff in attendance
  • Transportation of labor workers, with one passenger in one file

Safety measures and protocols will have to be strictly adhered to in course of conducting operations of the above-mentioned activities

The services that will remain suspended/closed for now

  • Schools, colleges, tuition, and training centers
  • Departmental stores (other than grocery items), malls, cinema halls, party palaces, and other recreational centers
  • Cross border movement except for designated entry points
  • Domestic and International flights except for special operations
  • Public gatherings such as fairs, conferences, exhibitions, etc.
  • Seminars, meetings exceeding 25 people
  • Places of religious gatherings
  • Transportation services and vehicles other than the ones allowed in phase 1
  • Sporting activities, performances
  • Health clubs, swimming pools, gym, salon and beauty parlors