KATHMANDU: The government has warned it would be compelled to impose a lockdown in a bid to control the spread of coronavirus if people failed to comply with the government’s health directives.
“It is high time that people abided by the directives of the government,” government spokesperson Pradeep Gyawali, who is also the Minister of Foreign Affairs, said today at a press conference organized to inform the cabinet decision.
Saying that protection of citizens’ lives is the government’s topmost priority, Minister Gyawali said adding action will be taken if repeated appeals do not work.
He, however, was quick to maintain that lockdown was not the ultimate solution to control the spread of coronavirus.
“We, therefore, urge one and all, especially the Kathmanduites, to become extremely cautious and sensitive at a time when the capital city has been reporting more than 60 percent of the positive cases,” he said.
Minister Gyawali also said that it all depends on the people’s compliance whether to impose lockdown or not.
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