KATHMANDU: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has asked the government to seal off all transit points to Kathmandu Valley throughout the lockdown period.
A meeting of the KMC’s municipal executive took this decision to this effect considering the growing risk of coronavirus in the Valley in recent days following a surge in the number of infected persons across the country.
KMC requested the government saying that people in large numbers continued to enter the Valley through the entry points during the lockdown as well by misusing the vehicles and special passes issued for essential services.
KMC Spokesman Ishwor Man Dangol said the KMC Municipal Executive has decided to write to the Ministry of Home Affairs and the District Administration Office Kathmandu to seal off the entry points to the Valley.
It has also demanded that legal action should be taken against people entering the Kathmandu Valley illegally without taking permission by flouting the lockdown order, and also against the person aiding that person.
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