KATHMANDU: Ten more people infected with COVID-19 have succumbed to the virus in Rupandehi district in the past 24 hours.
According to Dr Narayan Pokharel, the information officer of Bhim Hospital, a 57-year-old man of Omsatiya rural municipality-6, 65-year-old man of Gaidhawa rural municipality-3, Rupandehi, 45-year-old man of Siddhartha municipality-1, 45-year-old man of Ramgram municipality, Nawalparasi, 41-year-old woman of Suddhodhan municipality-5, Kapilvastu and 44-year-old man of Kothimai rural municipality-4, Rupandehi.
Administrative coordinator of Universal Teaching Hospital Tej KC informed that a 78-year-old woman of Tilottama municipality-14 died in the course of treatment at the hospital on Wednesday midnight.
Similarly, a 32-year-old man who was suffering from shortness of breath died on the way while being brought to Bhim Hospital.
Two other COVID-19 patients died in the course of treatment at COVID Special Hospital, Butwal on Thursday morning. The deceased include a 55-year-old man of Butwal-17 and 38-year-old woman of Bardaghat, Nawaparasi West.
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