Kathmandu, July 10 -- Health experts as well as public transport operators say they can't welcome the government's decision to allow buses to resume their services in haste as it was taken without any preparations.

While health experts say that resumption of public transport might spread the virus even more at a time when the Kathmandu Valley is witnessing a surge in the number of Covid-19 cases, public transport operators say it's hard to implement the new rules issued by the government.

"I see a lot of risk associated with the decision," said Dr Sher Bahadur Pun, virologist at the Sukraraj Hospital in Teku. Pun said that a dangerous mix of public transport operators trying to make-up for losses inflicted by the lockdown and the genera...