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75-bed quarantine facility to be managed in Kavrepalanchowk


12 June 2020  

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KAVRE: The Kavrepalchowk district level crisis management center is managing a 75-bed quarantine facility at Dhulikhel campus in Dhulikhel municipality-7.

Nepalis, hailing from the district, who have returned from foreign countries due to global coronavirus pandemic, will be kept at the facility, according to Chief District Officer Shrawan Kumar Timalsina.

The Dhulikhel Municipality has agreed to cooperate in this initiative.

Before keeping the returnees at the quarantine facility, they will be kept at the Basundhara-based holding center.

So far, eight people from Kavrepalanchowk have returned home from abroad.

After keeping them at the facility, they will be handed to the respective local level where they will be put at local quarantine facility, said Timalsina.

So far, 674-bed quarantine facility has been managed in the district. A total of 11,587 people from the district are in foreign countries including India, according to the available data. In the first phase of rescue operation, three persons from the district including a woman arrived home from UAE on last Friday.

In the second phase, five women from five local levels of the district reached Nepal from Kuwait on Thursday night.

They have been kept at a Dhulikhel-based quarantine facility, said the COVID-19 Prevention and Control District Command Post. Approximately 200 Nepalis who returned from India have been quarantined in the district, according to the Post. Five people including two women from the district are confirmed to have contracted the infection.

Publish Date : 12 June 2020 21:10 PM

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