Fifth coronavirus positive case in Nepal: Baglung woman who recently returned from Belgium

Kathmandu, March 28

Nepal has confirmed the fifth coronavirus positive case in the country, on Saturday.

Officials in the Ministry of Health and Population say a 19-year-old woman from Baglung district of western Nepal tested positive. She had recently returned home from Belgium.

It has been learned that the woman travelled on a Qatar Airways aircraft on March 17. Nepal’s second positive case, a woman who returned from France via Qatar, had also travelled on the same flight, according to Bikas Devkota, the spokesperson for the ministry.

The Baglung lady was traced after the second case was confirmed. Then, her swab sample was collected at Dhaulagiri Hospital for a test.

The woman was advised to stay in the hospital after the test, but she had returned home.

After the confirmation of the infection, preparations are being made to bring her Kathmandu safely.

This is the fourth case of coronavirus infection confirmed in Nepal in the past week.

37 kept in self-quarantine in Gorkha

GORKHA: As many as 37 persons recently returned home from abroad have been kept in self-quarantine at Shahid Lakhan rural municipality.

The municipality Chair Ramesh Babu Thapa shared that each ward office has kept a record of new entrants to the village and urged them to stay in self-quarantine.

He added that most of the persons staying in quarantine had arrived 20 days ago but they were made alert to avert possible infection of the deadly coronavirus.

Thapa shared that most of the new entrants are the migrant workers from India, Malaysia, Saudi, Arab and France.