Kathmandu, Sept. 3 -- All services, except for emergency ones, have remained shut for the last two days at Bir Hospital, Kathmandu, after 71 health workers, including over two dozen doctors, tested positive for Covid-19.

Bir, the only the non-Covid public hospital in the Kathmandu Valley, provides patients most of the medical services available in the country. Due to its shutdown, hundreds of ailing people are being deprived of treatment for non-Covid ailments.

Similarly, 31 doctors have been infected with the disease at the National Trauma Center.

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, while around 800 health workers across the country have tested positive for coronavirus, one has died due to Covid-19. Among the infected ...