Surkhet youth who died on Thursday diagnosed with Covid-19, Nepal’s death toll advances to 11

KATHMANDU: A 20-year-old who died on Thursday morning in Panchapuri Municipality-1 of Surkhet after returning house from a quarantine facility has been confirmed to have contracted COVID-19. He was despatched house on Wednesday night with an instruction to remain in house quarantine after his RDT report got here out adverse.

A PCR take a look at performed at State Avian Disease Investigation Laboratory, Surkhet confirmed his an infection, publish demise.

The youth had returned from Mumbai, India, on May 22 and was positioned within the quarantine facility in Janata Secondary School, Bidhyapur, together with 54 different individuals.

Preparations are being made to gather the swab pattern of those that got here in shut contact with the deceased throughout his return to Nepal, and within the quarantine facility, for PCR testings, knowledgeable Dhan Bahadur Thapa, ward chair of Panchpuri Municipality.

His physique is being guarded by the police until the Nepali Army workforce from Birendranagar arrive and take management of the state of affairs, knowledgeable Upendra Bahadur Thapa.

With this, the variety of individuals dying from the contagion has reached two within the Karnali province and 11 within the nation.

Earlier, a 35-year-old youth from Dullu, Dailekh who had handed away in quarantine was examined constructive for the respiratory illness.