KATHMANDU: Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Yogesh Bhattarai has said the novel coronavirus will be contained with conscious efforts.
Talking to journalists in Taplejung district through videoconferencing on Wednesday, Minister Bhattarai said since there was neither vaccine not medicine against the infection as of now, he said it was vital to curb this infection through awareness.
Stressing the need to learn from those countries facing health crisis for not timely observing precaution against this infection, Bhattarai clarified that the government here had worked in a systematic manner for COVID-19’s prevention and mitigation of its risk.
Minister Bhattarai said all awareness drive and techniques employed by the government against the coronavirus outbreak had been successful so far and even the international organizations had acknowledged it.
He viewed that ending or prolonging lockdown was not only up to Nepal’s circumstances.
The government was moving ahead assessing every circumstances and fallout stemming from this health crisis and would take due course of action depending on the situation.
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