Two more individuals test positive for COVID-19

Kathmandu - Two more persons were tested positive for coronavirus in Rupandehi and Banke districts, the Ministry of Health and Population confirmed on Friday. Joint Spokesperson of the Ministry, Dr Samir Kumar Adhikari, said the health condition of the infected persons--25 years old from Rupandehi, and 60 years old of Banke-- is normal.

The infected man of Rupandehi district had come home from India on April 17 by escaping the security forces in the border points. However, the District Health Office managed to collect his swabs on April 29 by keeping him under quarantine at Majhgawa. The final reports of his specimen tests were released today from the Public Health Laboratory, Teku. Officials said that other members of the infected person’s family are kept under surveillance.

The infected was admitted to Coronavirus Special Hospital in Butwal this afternoon, Dr Sudarshan Thapa of the hospital said. According to Thapa, the youth was complaining of epilepsy from the past. Similarly, the individual from Nepalgunj, who tested positive for COVID-19, was residing in a religious site, according to Nareshman Shrestha, Public Health Officer of District Health Office, Banke. The infected one is taken to the Corona Isolation Hospital built at the Khajura-based Cancer Hospital in the district. Shrestha said that swabs of all others residing with the infected individual are collected for tests.