1 Lecturer, Department of Physiology, National Medical College, Birgunj, Nepal.
2 Professor, Department of Physiology, Nepal Medical College, Kathmandu, Nepal.
3 Research Scientist, Multidisciplinary Research Unit, R.G. Kar Medical College, Kolkata, India.
Research Article
World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2020, 08(03), 125-129
Article DOI: 10.30574/wjarr.2020.8.3.0463
Received on 26 November 2020; revised on 05 December 2020; accepted on 07 December 2020
Nepal is a South Asian multi-ethnic (125 distinct ethnic groups) country with nearly 30 million populations and located (latitudes 20⁰ and 31⁰N and latitude 80⁰ and 89⁰E) largely in the Himalayas and partly in Indo-Gangetic plain, surrounded by China and India. International tourism is the leading industry in Nepal and around 1.75 million foreigners visit in every year. The first Novel corona virus disease (COVID-19) case was detected in Nepal on January 5, 2020. After that Government of Nepal immediately took some drastic steps to prevent the spread of COVID-19 like - mandatory health check-up in airports, cancellation of visas, prevention of infiltrations in borders, sending back all foreigners/tourists in their home countries and also reformed their healthcare systems, by building up isolation centers in hospitals and involving trained personnel for the management of COVID-19. Besides that, they tried earnestly to educate public through media and imposed/ implemented rule for home quarantine. All these planning to fight against COVID-19 were implemented strictly and granted rewarding results in this pandemic. Till mid-November, 2020 the incidence of COVID-19 infection in Nepal was 208299, of whom, 1215 died.
Nepal; Pandemic; Coronavirus; COVID-19; RT-PCR
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Esha Shrestha, Tapas Pramanik and Tapas Kumar Sur. Struggle against corona-virus in Nepal: Present scenario. World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2020, 8(3), 125-129. Article DOI: https://doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2020.8.3.0463