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RSS
The government has formulated a 26-point special action plan to help Nepalis who want to return home in the global pandemic of coronavirus. The Council of Ministers meeting on 25 May had approved the action plan. The action plan will facilitate those wishing to return home in a safe manner, quarantine arrangement for returnees in a way to check the pandemic spread, medical tests of returnees and adoption of criteria on heath safety.
The government is doing its groundwork to repatriate around 25,000 from the countries excluding India in the first phase. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will work to identify the citizens, classify them on priority basis, collect details and provide the information to stakeholders. The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security, Ministry of Home, state governments and local levels would cooperate to that end.
The Nepal Army, state government and local levels would help the Ministry of Health and Population get the returnees filled up health self-declaration forms at a holding center or airport. A team of doctors at the airport would screen the health examination certificate of the Nepali nationals returning via air. Meanwhile, Nepal Telecom and Ncell would provide mobile SIM cards for free to those individuals living in quarantine and holding facilities after returning from abroad.
The Nepal Army, Transport Department Management and Traffic Police would arrange for the travel of these individuals upto the quarantine and holding facilities after their arrival. Nepal Army would manage the holding centres while other security agencies and local levels would take care of security, surveillance and record management of the quarantine facilities. Similarly, the local levels would manage logistic supports for the quarantines with support from the Ministry of Urban Development and State governments.
As per the plan of action prepared by the government, the Ministry of Finance will allocate Rs 175 per day per person for 14 days until their stay in the quarantine facility for logistic support and food.
Likewise, concerned individuals should pay themselves for the air ticket and hotel quarantine. Similarly, health checkups and health security related management would be carried out by the Ministry of Health and Population while the entire monitoring, regulation and direction would be conducted from the COVID-19 Crisis Management Centre (CCMC), the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers.
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