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Movement of people further restricted All eight districts in State-2 have been affected by a coronavirus (COVID-19) with the detection of a case in Siraha Saturday morning. Siraha reported the first coronavirus case this morning, said State-2 Health Directorate. Test reports of four samples including one from Siraha were positive.
The test was conducted at the Teku-based National Public Health Laboratory, Kathmandu, said Directorate's senior public health administrator Bijay Kumar Jha. According to the latest COVID-19 testing reports, the number of COVID-19 in the State has reached 108. Parsa has the highest infections (91) followed by four in Dhanusha, three each in Rautahat, Bara and Sarlahi, two in Mahottari and one each in Saptari and Siraha.
As the infections continue to spike in the State, people's movement from one settlement to another has been tightened. Unnecessary movements have been restricted, acting upon the directions from the State Ministry of Internal Affairs and Law. The need for increasing the number of isolation beds has been highly felt with the growing rate of infections.
Currently, the Birgunj-based Narayani Hospital has 50 beds, followed by 42 in the State Hospital and eight beds in Pokhariya, Birgunj. The open border between Nepal and India has posed a further health threat to the people as people continue to cross the border to enter the country.
Experts underlined the need for making a holding point along the border area and begin the quarantine process. Meanwhile, the decision to convert the Lahan-based Ramkumar Umaprasad Memorial Hospital into a corona special hospital has been protested by locals.
