Tenants in the Valley face discrimination in the hands of home owners

Many tenants, especially health workers living in rented rooms in the Valley, fear getting kicked out if they contract the virus.

On August 13, Narayani tested positive for Covid-19. A mother of a year-old baby and a staff nurse at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Maharajgunj, the 29-year-old stayed at the hospital’s isolation ward for two weeks after the test results came out, leaving her infant in her husband’s care.