23 Nepalis died of coronavirus abroad last week

KATHMANDU, April 25: Twenty-three Nepalis died of coronavirus infection in different countries including 20 persons in India last week.

Coordinator of the Health Committee under the Non-Resident Nepali Association (NRNA), Dr Sanjeev Sapkota said that 20 Nepalis in India, two in Kuwait and one in Qatar succumbed to coronavirus.

Similarly, 10 Nepalis died in New Delhi of India while 10 others at different places of India. Most of them are of under 50 years of age. 

With this, 372 Nepalis living in 21 different countries in the world lost their lives from coronavirus. Number of Nepalis in 45 countries infected with the virus has so far reached 68,506.