PM Oli summons cabinet meeting as two-week lockdown draws to a close

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KATHMANDU: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has summoned a meeting of Council of Ministers today as the one-week term extension of nationwide
lockdown first imposed on March 24 nears end. The cabinet will review the lockdown phase while also making a decision on taking the shutdown
to its third week. The Government of Nepal had decreed a week long nationwide lockdown on March 24, which was further extended for a week in
a bid to control the spread of coronavirus pandemic in the country. So far, nine cases have been confirmed of which eight are active
Three cases were reported on Saturday, April 4
One of the three cases was the first local person-to-person transmission to have been identifies after which the government had declared
that Nepal had entered stage-two of the virus transmission. The post PM Oli summons cabinet meeting as two-week lockdown draws to a close
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