Four people succumb to COVID-19 in Lumbini Province

BUTWAL, April 18: As many as four people have succumbed to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Lumbini Province on Saturday evening in just five hours. 

According to Satya Narayan Thapa, DSP at the District Police Office, Rupandehi, a 65-year-old female from Mayadavi Rural Municipality-5, Rupandehi, who was admitted to a medical college in Bhairahawa, breathed her last at 5:50 PM. 

Similarly, a 73-year-old male of Bardiya’s Rajpur Rural Municipaliyt-1 passed away at 7:40 PM while another woman (aged 78) of Baijnath Rural Municpality-8 died around 9 PM on Saturday while undergoing treatment at COVID-19 ward of Bheri Hospital in Nepalgunj. Likewise, a 68-year-old woman from Narayan Rural Municipality-1, Dailekh also succumbed to the disease in the course of treatment at the same hospital.