KATHMANDU: The government has dispatched around 14 thousand 700 units rapid diagnostic test (RDT) kits to various States by air and land route in a bid to expand the scope of COVID-19 tests.
According to the Ministry of Health and Population, some 7,000 medical supplies including the RDT, VTM and PPE were send to State-1, State-2, Karnali State and Sudurpaschim State via air and surface route.
The ministry has plans to expand the coverage of COVID-19 tests in 28 districts of these four States, it said.
The government has so far carried out 22 thousand 664 real time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests.
Likewise, 62 thousand 327 samples have been tested as per the RDT method.
The number of people staying in quarantine is 15 thousand 600 while 272 people are kept in isolation so far.
Among the people kept in isolation, six are in Kathmandu and 266 are in districts outside Kathmandu.
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