Kathmandu, April 4 : With three more people testing positive for COVID-19 today, the total number of the patients suffering this infectious disease in the country has reached nine.
Those three confirmed to have contracted the virus are a 21-year-old male (from Kailali) who recently returned from Mumbai, India; a 41 -year-old male (from Kanchanpur) and he also arrived home recently from Uttarakhand, India; and a 41-year-old female (from Kailali). According to the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, Ministry of Health and Population, the very woman is a relative of the one who was tested positive earlier in Kailali. Their swab samples were collected some days ago and the tests were conducted on Friday, said Division director Dr Basudev Pandey. All three are being treated at the Dhanagadhi-based Sudurpaschim State Hospital.
With the latest update, it is the first time having a locally transmitted case. The first COVID-19 case was detected on a student arrived from Wuhan of China on January 23 and it has been already cured. Other infected ones are also under isolation care, the Ministry said. RSS
