Decrease in tracing and testing efforts puts public health at risk in Province 5

The number of critical Covid-19 patients has started to increase in hospitals after the government stopped contact tracing, health officials say.

On September 20, a 70-year-old man of Sukhkhanagar Ward 8 in Butwal visited a local clinic with complaints of fever and cough. Although he showed symptoms of Covid-19, the physician at the clinic advised him to take medicines for viral fever since the patient had no travel history and there were no reported Covid-19 cases in his locality.