KATHMANDU: The Country Representative of World Health Organization (WHO) in Nepal, Jos Vandelaer, said that there has been no evidence of community transmission of coronavirus here in Nepal.
He has urged the government to increase testing capacity considering the influx of Nepali workers from India.
Vandelaer said hospitals in the country are not being visited widely by people with coronavirus symptoms.
He said that it will be difficult to completely rule out community spread. “However, one can slow it down by quarantining and isolating people,” Vandelaer added.
According to him, since most of the news cases are among the returnees from India saying that it is difficult to say at what point and how quickly the cases start going into the broader population.
He maintained that the ongoing lockdown has helped break the chain of virus transmission.
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