April 6: The Ministry of Health and Population has requested anyone who has come into contact with foreign returnees to stay in quarantine for at least 15 days.

The Public Health Emergency Operation Centre under the ministry requested those people to stay in quarantine by issuing a public notice. After confirmation of a locally-transmitted case of coronavirus in Kailali recently, the center has requested one and all to be more alert and adopt adequate safety measures.

In the notice, Dr Guna Raj Lohani, coordinator of the centre, has requested the ones who are in contact with foreign returnees to stay in home for two weeks and maintain a distance of one meter with others.

Similarly, the centre has requested to go to health post if they have fever, cough or breathing problem. The ministry has started rapid coronavirus tests in districts including Kailali, Kanchanpur and Baglung from Sunday.

A meeting of the Council of Ministers had decided on rapid tests for coronavirus in these districts after emergence of new cases.