Nepal, May 28 -- On Sunday night, 42 individuals, who recently returned from India and were awaiting their coronavirus test results, ran away from their quarantine centre in Malpara, Kapilvastu Municipality.

Police, however, tracked all of them down and returned them to the centre on Monday morning, said Chief District Officer Dirgha Narayan Poudel.

This was not an isolated incident. Eleven individuals ran away from their quarantine centre in Rangapur, Yashodhara Municipality, on May 19. An additional 44 had fled in mid-May from two facilities in the municipality. A similar incident took place in Narainapur, Banke, last week.

Following the incidents, calls to allow returnees from abroad, especially India, to self-quarantine in their re...