BHOJPUR: The Bhojpur Municipality has provided food grain to 325 daily wage earner families. It distributed one sack of rice grain, one packet cooking oil, one kilogram salt and one kilogram lentil to each family.

The municipality has also set up a 100-bed quarantine facility in view of the coronavirus pandemic. A 40-bed quarantine facility has been constructed at the Tourist Information Centre at the municipality’s ward number 12 and another 60-bed such facility at Sumnima Polytechnic Institute Quarters at Deurali of the municipality.

These facilities have been established with the financial assistance of Bhojpur Municipality and Nepal Army’s the First Rifle Battalion, Chief District Officer of Bhojpur District, Basanta Raj Puri, said.

Meanwhile, the Khadananda Municipality has distributed a bar of soap and public awareness materials at each house in the municipality.

CDO Puri said high alertness has been adopted in the district for the prevention and control of COVID-19 pandemic.