Nepal’s Cabinet decided on Sunday to close all land border crossings with neighbouring China to the north and India to the south for one week starting Monday.
The move came after unconfirmed reports that a Nepali businessman who had gone to Patna for treatment had been diagnosed with a coronavirus infection at a hospital there.
The businessman had recently got a kidney transplant in Sri Lanka and had returned to the border town of Birganj last week via New Delhi and Kolkata. He was sent to Patna after suffering from a cold, but Department of Health Services spokesperson Mahendra Shrestha said it was not confirmed if he indeed has COVID-19. Read More…
