KATHMANDU: Nepalis have been seen defying the nation-wide lockdown imposed by the government to curb the spread of COVID-19.

According to Dr. Prakash Budhathoky, a psychologist, that people were likely to violate the lockdown out of curiosity.

People step out to see how the lockdown actually looked like or say, how empty roads and highways looked like as this is the first time that the government had imposed the nationwide lockdown said Dr. Budhathoky, Rising Nepal reported.

He pointed out that Nepalis tend to feel smart by violating the government-imposed rules and regulations.

“Most of the people are seen boasting about how they went out and neither the police punished them nor the disease infected them,” he added.

“They negligently violate the lockdown to feel superior amongst their friends and acquaintances.”, Budhathoky said.

Similarly, people tend to have a bias to think that nothing wrong will happen to them and step out of their houses without caring about their health.

However, it had been a compulsion for some people to step out amid the lockdown.