Villagers in rural parts of Lumbini Province refuse to get tested for Covid-19

Coronavirus suspects reluctant to get tested due to social stigma, health workers say.

A 55-year-old man from Rainadevi Chhahara Rural Municipality-2 in Palpa, who was suffering from coronavirus-like symptoms, refused to get tested when the local unit sent a health team to his settlement to collect swab samples of coronavirus suspects for Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests.