COVID-19: Long-route vehicular service standstill

The operation of long-route vehicles has come to a halt from today taking into consideration the potential risks of COVID-19 outbreak.  

A meeting of the Nepal National Federation of Transport Entrepreneurs has on Sunday took the decision to shut the operation of long-route vehicles to implement the government’s decision to stop the service from today, Federation’s general secretary Saroj Sitaula informed that they have stopped the operation of long-route vehicles upholding the government’s decision.  

However, vehicular service in Kathmandu valley and other short-distance areas have not been stopped. “A meeting to take place at the ministry today would define the distance of long-route service”, he shared