SURKHET: Fifty-two percent of the coronavirus infected people in Karnali are found living in home isolation.

The Province Health Service Division stated that 237 of the 452 (or 52 percent) active infection cases in the Karnali state were in home isolation.

The latest data shared by the Division shows that 215 of the active infection cases are receiving treatment in isolation facilities run by various hospitals and the local levels. One hundred sixty-nine of the 273 infected persons are in home isolation in Surkhet alone, which comes to be about 62 percent.

The number of infected people staying in home isolation has increased after the government directed the asymptomatic cases to stay in home isolation adopting all the health safety standards.