Curbs need gradual lifting, with other measures to control pandemic, experts say

Contact tracing, testing and isolating are the key and for this whole government machinery must be deployed. But Health Ministry alone cannot do everything, officials say.

By the time the prohibitory orders currently in place in Kathmandu Valley end on June 14, the Capital will have been under lockdown for 47 days. Valley authorities on Wednesday extended the lockdown by 10 more days.