BANKE: The local authorities have issued prohibitory orders in Narainapur of Banke after increasing number of coronavirus infected people started to abscond from the quarantine facilities.
Some people were active to instigate suspected people to leave quarantines, authorities said.
A meeting of the district security committee held today decided to impose prohibition from 8 pm today.
The meeting has also decided to mobilize Nepal Army in the area.
A person has already died of COVID-19 while 114 persons are infected with coronavirus in Narainapur.
The Naraina Rural Municipality has earlier sought additional help from all three layers of governments and stakeholders concerned to cope up with the coronavirus crisis.
This Municipality alone has 800 quarantines.
It has also demanded additional team of medical persons and mobilization of security persons immediately.
Fearing that the disease would go out of control with the virus spread in community level, the Rural Municipality had earlier written to the State and Federal governments, District Security Committee and COVID-19 Control and Management Committee, demanding their assistance.
Chief Administrative Officer at Naraina Rural Municipality, Maniram Kharal said they had demanded immediate assistance of high level medical teams and additional security forces.
He stated that some people were involved in spreading misinformation on coronavirus and non-cooperating with the security persons and government employees, which would further down morale of those devoted to the campaign against the control and prevention of the COVID-19.
The request of immediate assistance was also made with the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers. Information Officer at Narainapur Rural Municipality, Laxmikant Mishra, said additional security forces were demanded because some people were active to instigate suspected people to leave quarantine.
Likewise, the number of people entering Nepal from India has been increasing.
Chief Administrative Officer Kharal stated that even the superstition and lack of proper awareness of COVID-19 was contributing to the inflation of virus spread.
Thousands more people will enter the district, the rural municipality projected, he said adding it would pose further threat.
Narainapur Rural Municipality has easy entry as it has border point for those returning home from Indian cities.
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