Kathmandu, June 4 -- Nepal's Prime Minister K P Oli has replaced his Health Minister and Foreign Minister, two key officials who had been leading his government's Covid-19 response, in a Cabinet reshuffle late Friday.

The move comes even as the Supreme Court is bearing writ petitions to overturn his dissolution of Parliament and call for early elections, and as he continuesto fight for his political survival.

Oli's UML party has been depleted by a rebel faction that is threatening to register a new party, so he has inducted ten ministers from theJanata Samajbadi Party (JSP)which itself was split over whether to support Oli or not.

Oli has replaced some of his own UML ministers and replaced them with eight new ministers and two state mi...