Kathmandu, 13 April: As many new cases of Covid-19 were being reported in the country lately, the detection of new variant of the infection has caused a concern among the experts since the new variant seems to be more contagious.
Dr Sagarraj Bhandari, Director at the Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Diseases Hospital at Teku, urged one and all to have health precautions to prevent the virus. “The new variant is of the earlier virus which is very infectious,” informed Dr Bhandari, pressing for the need to adhere to the health protocols to prevent the deadly infection. The country witnessed a total of 496 new cases of Coronavirus infection in the past 24 hours taking the total caseload in the country to 280,524 till date. The number of reported active cases in the country is 3,306 while recovery rate is over 97 per cent. All the 3,306 infected ones are in isolation in various parts of the country, according to the Ministry of Health and Population.
People’s News Monitoring Service
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