KATHMANDU: With the steady surge in the number of coronavirus cases across the nation, the Cabinet meeting held on Monday has decided to re-impose restrictions on various service providing units.

In the same, Hotels and Restaurants can no longer host guests and can only offer take away services while other provisions on regulation of restrictive measures have been sketched out too.

"We decided to allow hospitality sector to operate only take-away service after they failed to comply with government's safety protocol against the disease," informed government's spokesperson Dr Yuvaraj Khatiwada while briefing about the cabinet decision to media.

Likewise, the government also directed all the Bank and Financial Institutions (BFIs) and other corporate houses to operate with 50 percent staff capacity and arrange work from home system to contain the spread of contagion in work settings.