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Kalikot becomes coronavirus free district

KathmanduPati September 17, 2020

KALIKOT : Kalikot is now a coronavirus free district after 20 previously infected patients returned home after undergoing isolation and recovering in the Tilagufa municipality-4, Ranchhuli on Wednesday.

Acting manager of the District Health Service Office Kalikot Katak Bahadur Mahat said that as many as 100 people diagnosed with the coronavirus in the district have returned home after recovering.

He further shared that 100 out of 5,690 PCR tested and 2,661 RDT tested people were confirmed to have contracted the virus in the district so far. Mahat said the coronavirus cases were detected in all eight out nine local levels of the district. A 100-bed hospital has been constructed in the district for the treatment of COVID-19 cases. —