INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KATHMANDU: Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) has begun today on residents of Pepsicola-based Sun City Apartments after two of its residents tested
positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday.
Testing through the RDT method began at the Apartments on Wednesday morning considering the risk of virus
spread, stated Kageshwari Manohara Municipality.
Residents of Block A will be tested today in the first phase as the two residents — a
woman, 81, and her son, 58 — who tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday, live there
Priority will be given to senior citizens and those with underlying health conditions
It has been learnt that 242 people reside in this block of the residential apartments.
There are five blocks in Sun City Apartments, which
As many as 1,800 people live in these blocks.
Three members of a family, including the woman, her son and his wife were admitted to the
isolation ward of Patan Hospital on Monday after they tested positive for the disease during rapid diagnostic tests performed on them.
Their
throat swabs were then sent to the National Public Health Laboratory, where Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) method was used to confirm the
The PCR tests generated positive result for the 81-year-old woman and her son, while the result of the daughter-in-law is awaited, according
to the Ministry of Health and Population.
The three had returned from the United Kingdom via Qatar on March 18.
With this, the total number
of COVID-19 cases in the country has reached 16.
Woman, son test positive for COVID-19
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