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		</div><p>Offices were closed, markets were shuttered and vehicles were forced off the streets in Nepal’s capital as authorities imposed a 15-day lockdown because of spiking cases of Covid-19.</p>
<p>The lockdown was imposed in most of the Himalayan nation’s major cities and towns.</p>
<p>In Kathmandu and surrounding districts, police set up checkpoints and were stopping drivers and pedestrians. Several vehicles were impounded for defying the lockdown.</p>
<p>Residents rushed to neighbourhood grocery stores for supplies in the morning when authorities allowed them to open for a few hours.</p>
<p>Tens of thousands of people had rushed out of Kathmandu in the past two days to avoid the shutdown.</p>
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<p>Both international and domestic flights were operating on schedule.</p>
<p>The government has closed the land borders to foreigners, but citizens of neighbouring India can enter with a negative coronavirus test and proof of a hotel booking for a 10-day quarantine.</p>
<p>Nepal’s health ministry has recorded 312,699 infections while 3,211 people have died from Covid-19.</p>
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