Kathmandu, April 19 -- Bodies of dozens of Nepali migrant workers who lost their lives in various labour destination countries remain stranded for weeks now, unable to be repatriated due to the ongoing travel restrictions and lockdown owing to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The country is under a strict lockdown at least until April 27 and international flights suspended until April 30, as a result the families of the deceased migrant workers have been deprived from performing the funeral and final rites of their loved ones.

According to the Foreign Employment Board, the repatriation process of over seventy bodies have been put on hold because international flights are not allowed to land in Nepal.

"Bodies of migrant workers in several labour ...