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Dubai-returnee Thapa dies in isolation



BUTWAL: A person, suspected of coronavirus and quarantined at the Butwal-based Corona Special Hospital, has died on Sunday.

Babu Ram Thapa, 34, who had returned to Nepal from Dubai on March 19, died, according to focal person of Lumbini Provincial Hospital, Sudarshan Thapa.

He was kept in quarantine at the special hospital set up at the Butal Spinning Mills after he complained of fever.

The reason for his death is yet to be ascertained.

Publish Date : 29 March 2020 15:48 PM

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