Kathmandu, May 26 -- A 70-year-old man from Bara became the fourth Nepali to die of Covid-19. The man, admitted to the Birgunj-based National Medical College to receive treatment for tuberculosis and pneumonia, died on May 17.

The death was attributed to coronavirus only on Monday after his nasal swabs were re-tested in Kathmandu, said Dr Madan Upadhyay, medical superintendent at Narayani hospital in Birgunj.

The first two fatalities in the country (the 29-year-old new mother and the 41-year-0ld man) had one thing in common with the fourth case. All of them were patients admitted to a general hospital, and they did not have a history of travelling to disease-hit places outside or inside the country.

Several others, admitted to various ...