By Our Reporter
The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) has been reporting over 10,000 daily COVID-19 cases over the week. On Tuesday, it confirmed 12,008 new single-day cases across the nation, including 6,172 cases in the Kathmandu Valley. Of them, 9,432 were through PCR tests and 2,576 through antigen tests from a total of 25,909 tests (18,103 were Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests and 7,806 were antigen tests). The infection positivity rate through PCR test was 52.1 per cent, which is very high.
With ever-rising cases, the number of active COVID-19 cases in the Kathmandu Valley reached 56,882 on Tuesday while the total active cases across the nation reached 88,934. Of them, 41,633 are in Kathmandu, 9,668 in Lalitpur, and 5,581 in Bhaktapur districts. However, daily cases are still less than 1000 in five provinces but they are nearly 7000 in Bagmati and a little more than 1000 in Province-1.
As the cases are surging, many high-profile leaders have also caught the virus. CPN-UML chair KP Oli and his spouse Radhika and Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s wife Sita have been tested positive while Dahal himself, Madhav Kumar Nepal, Narayankaji Shrestha, Education Minister Devendra Paudeland many others have overcome the virus.
Of course, a large number of civil servants, journalists, and even health workers have tested positive for the virus. Many District Administration Offices across the country have halted their services as many of its staff were tested positive. Even hospitals have halted OPD services when the health workers get infected.
While many people are falling ill, there has been an acute shortage of paracetamol, the common medicines the COVID-19 patients use, across the country. Although the government has denied shortage, patients are not finding life-saving tablets in the market.
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