Failure to ensure effective contact tracing could spell a disaster as Covid-19 cases rise, experts say

With lockdown lifted, there has been an increase in people’s movement, but government authorities have failed to keep up with contact tracing.

On Wednesday, a woman approached the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division to inquire why the division had not sent anyone to her home for contact tracing. The woman, in her early 30s, said her mother had tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday, according to Uttam Kumar Koirala, a senior public health officer at the division.