Coronavirus found spread in community-level in Bhaktapur, says Health Office

BHAKTAPUR:- The Health Office, Bhaktapur, has drawn a conclusion that coronavirus has spread in the community-level in Bhaktapur district.

Chief at the Health Office, Krishna Bahadur Mijar, said that conclusion has been drawn that out of four municipalities in the district, coronavirus infection has spread at community-level in Madhyapurthimi municipality. Asmita Pawan of COVID-19 Information Management Centre shared that a total of 307 people—113 women and 194 men tested positive for coronavirus infection till Monday in the district. Of them, 114 are from Madhyaurthimi municipality.

The cases of coronavirus infection are increasing in the Suryabinayak municipality after Madhyapurthimi. Coronavirus has been confirmed on 77 people in Suryabinayak municipality, 47 in Bhaktapur municipality, and 39 in Changunarayan municipality. Mijar added that three people including a woman tested positive for coronavirus in Bhaktapur municipality, a nine-year-old child, and six women in Madhyapurthimi municipality and a man and two women in Suryabinayak municipality while Changunarayan municipality has no record of coronavirus infection on Monday. Coronavirus was confirmed on two persons on May 12 in Bhaktapur district for the first time. Both of them were from out of Bhaktapur district.