Dhangadi, April 4
The woman in Kailali who tested positive for coronavirus, had been sent home from quarantine citing lack of symptoms.
The 34-year-old of Dhangadi, Kailali, who also happens to be the first locally transmitted case in the country, is a relative of the youth who had returned home from Dubai via New Delhi and was diagnosed with the virus here. He, also aged 34, is the fourth person to be diagnosed with the virus in the country. He tested positive on March 27.
The authority had then placed his entire family in quarantine at a shelter set up in Dhangadi stadium the next day. From there, the woman was sent home after a couple of days, citing her normal health condition.
“She had returned home after staying in quarantine for two days on March 28 and 29,” said Kailali District Police Office Spokesperson DSP Dakshya Basnet.
According to Seti Provincial Hospital Spokesperson Jagadish Joshi, test reports of other family members are pending.
“We collected swab samples of all 10 family members. We got the woman’s test report but others’ reports are yet to come,” Joshi said.
Similarly, it has been revealed that two other persons who tested positive for the virus now had been with a lot of other people while returning home from India.
One of the two cases, a 21-year-old youth of Pratappur, Lamkichuha Municipality, Kailali, had retur
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