KATHMANDU: Five persons including wife of 26-year-old youth of Bhojpur confirmed to have coronavirus have tested negative.

COVID-19 tests were carried out on five persons including the wife of the youth through the Polymerase Chain Reaction method and all the results were negative.

According to Mayor of Belaka Municipality Durga Bahadur Thapa, their swab samples were tested at the Dharan-based BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences.

The youth had returned Nepal through a flight of Himalaya Airlines on March 13.