Covid-19 cases expected to surge in villages in next two weeks

Experts urge authorities to prepare quarantine, isolation facilities in villages and oxygen supply in district hospitals as they expect returnees to villages for Dashain to transmit the virus.

Of the 8,248 swab samples tested in the last 24 hours only 1,954 people tested coronavirus positive. The number of people testing positive was even lower on Tuesday—570— as only 2,725 had been tested.