Health Ministry deputes a doctor, paramedics at the airport health desk
Kathmandu, Jan. 16 -- Following an alert from the World Health Organization (WHO) over the possible spread of a coronavirus strain, the Ministry of Health and Population on Wednesday deputed a medical doctor to the Tribhuvan International Airport health desk.
The WHO last week had alerted Nepal about the risk of possible transmission of a new strain of coronavirus detected in the Wuhan city of China, where at least one person has died of respiratory failure and more than 40 others have suffered a pneumonia-like illness caused by a new strain of coronavirus last week.
"We have deployed a medical doctor and paramedics at the health desk set up at the Tribhuvan International Airport," Khaga Raj Baral, secretary at the Health Ministry, told...
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