By Our Reporter
Cases of the COVID-19 have been on the constant rise in Nepal with 1200 new cases a day on average, and more than half of them in the Kathmandu Valley.
When the national tally of the cases reached 66,632 with 429 deaths on Tuesday, cases in the valley jumped to 18646 with 113 deaths.
Of the 1356 new cases detected across the country on Tuesday, 647 were from the Kathmandu Valley. Of the 1154 new cases found on Monday, 674 were detected in the Valley. While on Sunday, the Valley witnessed 767 new cases, 711 new cases on Saturday, 859 on Friday, 618 on Thursday and 737 on last Wednesday.
Of the new cases detected in the valley, 80 per cent of them are in Kathmandu as the daily new cases in Lalitpur and Bhaktapur districts are limited in two-digit with only an exception in which Bhaktapur witnessed 101 cases once.
By now Kathmandu district has 14665 cases, 1683 in Lalitpur and 1589 in Bhaktapur. Except for Tuesday, Kathmandu Valley has the share of more than half of the daily new cases, with 80 per cent of them Kathmandu district, indicating that the capital city has now become the hotspot of the COVID-19.
The crowd of people gathered at the Teku hospital to have the PCR tests on Monday hinted that the situation in Kathmandu is likely to go out of control soon. The ICU and ventilators have already been occupied. Of the 18,142 active cases nationwide, 9193 are receiving treatment in various hospitals.
However, the government seems not serious about controlling the spread of the virus spread in the capital, when the city is witnessing over 600 cases a day, it has allowed operation of all businesses and offices, except for cinemas and schools. The buses get crowded in the evening and the markets draw crowds in the day time, and they could be agents for the quick transmission of the virus. Now when festivals like Dashain and Tihar are approaching soon, the crowds in the market will sure to increase. Moreover, many of the people will return to villages to mark the festivals, putting the rural areas, which have remained safe from virus, at risk, because many people returning to their villages fro Kathmandu could carry the deadly virus with them and pass them on their family members and villagers. Hence, the government, need to be more serious about the increasing COVID-19 cases in Kathmandu and take measure to not spread the virus in villages during the festival time.
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