Kathmandu, Aug. 30 -- A man from Gyankunja Tole of Bhaktapur Municipality died of Covid-19 on Sunday.

He was 65. He was among the 14 people who succumbed to the coronavirus in the last 24 hours. The man, however, did not die in hospital. He had been in home isolation for the last six days. He had tested positive for the virus on August 25.

The death during home isolation, according to doctors, puts spotlight on the concerns that have been raised for quite some time that many people might die without getting treatment.

"Health workers deployed for contact tracing had tracked the infected man on August 27," Shyam Krishna Khatri, chief of Ward No. 1 of Bhaktapur Municipality, told the Post. "Our health workers allowed the patient to stay ...