JANAKPURDHAM: State 2 has intensified collection of swabs for test for coronavirus to make the prevention and control of coronavirus more effective.
Meanwhile, the federal government has mobilized six teams while the State-2 government has mobilized two teams for collecting swabs.
The teams, which have sent to different districts, have collected swab samples from 1,621 people so far.
A total of 371 samples were collected on Sunday alone.
Secretary at the State-2’s Ministry of Social Development, Dr Ram Prasad Ghimire informed that among the samples tested so far, 816 have tested negative to coronavirus while the reports of 826 samples were awaited.
Ghimire added that coronavirus has been confirmed in seven people in the State.
Among seven persons who tested positive to coronavirus, four have returned home after recovery while three are being treated at the Birgunj-based Narayani Hospital.
Likewise, some 4,523 people have been tested for coronavirus by employing the rapid diagnostic test (RDT) in the state so far.
They include 339 in Siraha, 729 in Saptari, 165 in Mahottari, 439 in Dhanusha, 128 in Sarlahi, 146 in Bara, 445 in Rautahat, and 2,123 in Parsa.
Around 1,489 people are in quarantine and 29 people are kept in isolation in the State, Ghimire said.
Comment