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16 APF personnel diagnosed with coronavirus in Pokhara

KathmanduPati August 20, 2020

Pokhara- A statement issued by the state health directorate of Pokhara on Wednesday evening has confirmed the coronavirus in 16 police officers of the Armed Police Force based in the battalion at Pokhara Metropolitan City-7.

The tests were conducted at the tuberculosis center. The police personnel had been posted to Syangja from Pokhara last month after a case was detected in the police station at the District Police Office, Syangja.

16 out of 29 PCR tests were confirmed positive, informed Harilal Acharya, an official at the Pokhara Metropolitan Health Division. Similarly, the directorate has also informed that eight positive cases have been confirmed in Baglung of Gandaki Province. With this, the number of infected people has reached 1,812 in the province of Gandaki.