COVID-19: One more found infected

Another person has been found carrying the Coronavirus, taking the total number of infected to five in the country. This was shared in the daily press briefing organized by the Ministry of Health and Population this afternoon.

A 19-year-old girl from Baglung was found positive in the sample test carried out at the National Public Health Laboratory, Teku, Ministry spokesperson Dr Bikas Devkota said. She had arrived Kathmandu via Doha from Belgium in the QR-652 flight of Qatar Airways. The girl had reportedly landed in Kathmandu on March 17.

Her condition is normal and efforts are being made to bring her for treatment to Kathmandu from Baglung.