11 thousand 587 people from Kavrepalanchok are in foreign land

Kathmandu - Eleven thousand 587 people from Kavrepalanchok district are abroad in various countries including India, the District-level Crisis Management Centre (DCMC) said. The DCMC is working on a plan to upscale the number of quarantine facilities in the district after the government started making preparations to bring home the Nepali citizens stranded abroad and facing problem due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The district has 342 beds at various quarantine facilities managed by the 13 local levels and local organisations. Four people are kept in quarantine at Paanchkhal, 11 people are kept in quarantine at Dhulikhel Hospital and 17 people are kept in quarantine at Chaurideurali rural municipality of the district at present.