The authorities in Nepal's Kathmandu Valley on Sunday decided to lift all restrictive measures against public and private transportation and allow more operation hours for shops while extending the ongoing lockdown for 10 more days to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.

"We decided to relax the prohibitory orders further as the COVID-19 cases didn't rise significantly even after past relaxation," Dhundi Prasad Niraula, chief district officer of Lalitpur, one of the three districts in the valley, told Xinhua.