Source::RSS
Naraina Rural Municipality of Banke district has sought additional help from all three layers of government and stakeholders to cope with the crisis. It has demanded additional teams of medical persons and mobilization of security persons immediately.
Fearing that the disease will go out of control with the virus spreading to the community level, the Rural Municipality has written to the State and Federal governments, District Security Committee and COVID-19 Control and Management Committee, demanding assistance. A person has already died of COVID-19 while 114 are infected with coronavirus here.
Chief Administrative Officer at Naraina Rural Municipality, Maniram Kharal, informed that they demanded immediate assistance of high level medical teams and additional security forces. He further said some people were involved in spreading misinformation on coronavirus and not cooperating with security persons and government employees.
The request of immediate assistance was also made with the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers. Information Officer at Narainapur Rural Municipality, Laxmikant Mishra, said additional security forces were demanded because some people were active in instigating suspected people to leave the quarantine.
Similarly, the number of people entering Nepal from India has not decreased, and the quarantines here are packed. Chief Administrative Officer Kharal viewed that even superstition and lack of proper awareness of COVID-19 was contributing to the spread. Thousands more are expected to enter the district, the rural municipality projected, adding it would pose a further threat.
Narainapur Rural Municipality has an easy entry as it has border points for those returning home from Indian cities. The Municipality has adopted a policy to keep all those entering the country in quarantine, but some people resort to clandestine routes. This Rural Municipality alone has 800 quarantines.
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