Municipality office closes due to coronavirus infection

Kathmandu - The Sandhikharka municipality office is closing down from today after 31 people including the municipality officials tested positive to coronavirus. The swabs of municipality employees would be collected today and sent for the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests.

Municipality's chief administrative officer Jeevan Gyawali said all works and services of the municipality office would be closed until the PCR test results of all employees were available. Similarly, all employees of the municipality assigned on regular works in the last 10 days have been asked to stay in home quarantine.