DHARAN: Works have started to construct a 100-bed Corona Special Hospital here.

The Rehabilitation Center located on the premises of the BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences is being converted into the hospital within a week.

The hospital said that 100 isolation beds will be readied in the first phase.

Province-1 is the most hit by the coronavirus. The province has 29 COVID-19 cases so far.

Some 1,163 people were quarantined in the districts of the province and among them, 43 have been sent home. A total of 30 persons have been isolated.