Myagdi reports its first COVID-19 case

Kathmandu - Coronavirus infection has been confirmed in one person for the first time in Myagdi district on Thursday. A 30-year-old male from Ruma, Malika rural municipality-2 has tested positive to COVID-19 in course of test conducted at the Regional Health Laboratory Pokhara.

He was kept in quarantine at the New West Point Boarding High School in Beni, chief of the Health Office Myagdi, Ek Narayan Lamsal, said. The infected person has now been shifted to the isolation ward. According to Lamsal, the swab samples of 14 people were sent for test to Pokhara on Thursday and one among these tested positive for coronavirus.