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COVID-19 impact: Lawmakers call for closing educational institutions



KATHMANDU: Lawmakers today suggested making the required preparation at institutions and places where many people assemble as a precaution against the possible infection of COVID-19.

Parliamentarians at the House of Representatives (HoR) on Thursday demanded that educational institutions be closed immediately.

Lawmaker Renu Kumari Yadav and Bhimsen Das Pradhan called for taking immediate precautionary measures against COVID-19 at places where a large number of people gather.

They also called for closing educational institutions at the earliest.

Likewise, lawmaker Ram Bahadur Bista drew the attention of the government towards curbing artificial shortage of essential goods in the market created in the pretext of the coronavirus by unscrupulous traders.

Publish Date : 12 March 2020 19:12 PM

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