Doti issues health alerts for Covid-19

March 27, Doti: All the nine local levels in the Doti district are on alert following the rising coronavirus cases in neighbouring India.

The district people who went to India for jobs have started returning home with the increasing infections rate there.

Local governments have already resumed the building of quarantine facilities targeting the returnees from India. Health workers have been directed to be mandatorily physically present at assigned work stations.  District Health Office Chief Ramesh Malasi said health/medical workers have been asked not to take leave except for emergency purposes.

Similarly, the Far-West Province Health Directorate Rajpur has written the District Health Office in Baitadi, Darchula, Kailali and Kanchanpur sharing borders with India to ensure the antigen test of suspects.