Three Indians test positive for COVID-19

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Kathmandu, April 12

Three Indian nationals, who had been evicted from a mosque in Birgunj not too long ago, examined constructive for the novel coronavirus illness right this moment, taking the overall instances of COVID-19 an infection in Nepal to 12.

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, all three are males, aged 37, 44 and 55 years.

They have been admitted to the isolation ward of  Narayani Sub-Regional Hospital in Birgunj and their well being situation is regular. These individuals had been dwelling in a mosque in Chhapkaiya of Birgunj Metropolitan City.

“All three are Muslim preachers who had come to Nepal from Delhi and Uttar Pradesh,” stated Basudev Pandey, director, Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, below the Department of Health Services.

“Of the three, two are asymptomatic, whereas one has delicate cough,” stated Madan Kumar Upadhyaya, medical superintendent at Narayani Hospital. According to Upadhyaya, laboratory samples had been collected from 24 Muslims who had come to the hospital for screening on Thursday. Their throat swabs had been despatched to Vector-Borne Disease  Research and Training Centre, Hetauda, for testing. Since three samples examined constructive on the Hetauda-based lab, they had been despatched to National Public Health Laboratory for retesting. The outcomes of checks performed at NPHL yesterday confirmed that they had been constructive.

The 21 individuals who examined damaging for the illness have been put below quarantine.

After the three COVID-positive instances had been admitted to Narayani Sub-regional Hospital, the hospital halted all its out-patient division providers. But the hospital continues to run different providers, equivalent to emergency, gynaecology and neuro.

Doctors within the hospital have demanded separate COVID-19 hospital be arrange within the space.

Niraj Singh, one of many medical doctors working within the hospital, wrote on social media: “The authorities ought to make clear if Narayani Hospital is a COVID-19 centre. If sure, different sufferers ought to be transferred to another hospitals. If not, these three coronavirus sufferers ought to be transferred to a COVID-19 hospital.”

Nepal reported its first COVID-19 case on January 23 after a 32-year-old man, who had returned from Wuhan, China, examined constructive. He has since recovered, whereas eight different constructive instances are present process remedy in three hospitals throughout Nepal.

A model of this text seems in e-paper on April 13, 2020 of The Himalayan Times.

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