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Lockdown likely if health precautions not adopted: COVID-19 expert



KATHMANDU: Medical persons have warned that the situation to impose lockdown would arrive in the country if the Nepal government did not carry out proper homework and people did not follow proper health precautions.

With the spike in the coronavirus infection cases in the southern neighbor India, the situation of lockdown is likely to come in Nepal again if the safety precautions were not adopted.

Dr Ramesh Kumar Acharya, a coronavirus expert, who has been making an in-depth study on the coronavirus pandemic at the international level, has said UK variants and Brazilian AP 1 infection virus have already entered Nepal.

Acharya has urged one and all to strictly adopt health precautions saying that the COVID-19 variants would cause a heavy toll on the human health in the country.

“New variants of the UK, Brazil and India have already entered Nepal. It has already spread to the community level. The coming days would be even harder and more difficult,” warned Acharya.

As many as eight COVID-19 patients have reportedly succumbed to the coronavirus pandemic in the last 24 hours.

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, the new deaths have taken the country’s death toll to 3,091 as of Monday afternoon.

Meanwhile, Nepal recorded a total of 1,227 new cases of coronavirus infection in the past 24 hours.

 

Publish Date : 20 April 2021 07:10 AM

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