गृहपृष्ठ ∕ Nepal ∕ Tokha municipality shut after employees contract coronavirus Nepal Tokha municipality shut after employees contract coronavirus KathmanduPati September 05, 2020 kathmandu : Tokha municipality office will remain closed for a week after its employees contracted coronavirus. Following the diagnosis of coronavirus infection on its employee recently, the municipality is closing its operation from 6-11 September. Municipality’s chief administrative officer Pradeep Poudel said as some on-duty employees of the municipality have tested positive for the virus the office will remain closed for a week to prevent further transmission of the virus. He however clarified that the tasks of coronavirus control and management would continue despite shutdown of the municipality office. As many as 257 people have been diagnosed with the virus in Tokha as of Friday. Among them 90 have recovered and discharged from hospitals and 160 are still active infected. Out of the active, 109 are in home isolation and 48 are receiving treatment in different hospitals, shared municipality’s spokesperson Bachchu Raj Basyal. The municipality has transformed the Tokha Chandeswori primary health facility as a 20-bed isolation centre for the treatment of corona-infected people. The municipality has provided daily allowance of Rs 350 for the patients receiving treatment at home isolation. Write your comments RELATED NEWS Valley people suffer due to double protests Two dead, 14 hurt in microbus-scooter collision Weather to remain partly to generally cloudy in hilly region… Two die, 14 get injury in bus accident Teachers’ protest affects community school admission drive Supreme Court orders to shut brick kilns operating in Panchkhal Top Headlines Relevance of Prithivi Narayan Shah in Contemporary Nepal1 Scrutinizing Relevance of Prithivi Narayan Shah´s Thoughts and Strategy2 Photo exhibition at Nepal Army Headquarters3 NA team sets out on Gorakha-Kathmandu march to promote ‘unification route’4 Ncell is the FIRST Nepali Telecom Company to receive ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 certifications for information security and data privacy5 PM Oli, Sri Lankan’s former President meet6 PM Oli extends New Year greetings7 Gold price ups Rs 2,000 per tola8 TRENDING National Poet Madhav Prasad Ghimire no more Lockdown 2.0: What the Government should do this time around This time’s Teej, social distancing please! Now more than ever, support the IT sector Empowering the Journey of Digital Nepal Through Connectivity and Data K2 rifles purchased by Nepal Army from Korean company found to be faulty NC work execution committee meeting tomorrow Prachanda flies to India for treatment of his ailing wife
