Nepal, Oct. 16 -- In case you missed them, here are some of the important stories Republica covered on Thursday.

Nepal added 3,749 new novel coronavirus infections on Thursday, taking the country's total case count to 1, 21,745. Sharing the country's national update on the COVID-19 situation at a virtual media briefing, spokesperson for the Ministry of Health and Population, Jageshwar Gautam said that 3,749 new cases of coronavirus were detected through 16,598 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests conducted at various labs across the country in the past one day. The Kathmandu Valley alone witnessed 1,935 new coronavirus infections in the past one day, according to Spokesperson Gautam. Although the number of coronavirus cases is increasin...