Kathmandu, April 9 -- The Ministry of Health and Population says it is working to revisit the projection of new cases of Covid-19 in the next three months.

Earlier, the ministry had estimated that 50,000 additional people would be infected throughout the country between April and July (Chaitra and Ashad according to the Nepali calendar.)

"More people will be infected in the next three months than the projection we made earlier," Dr Guna Nidhi Sharma, a senior public health administrator at the Health Ministry, told the Post. "We will revisit the estimation and recommend measures to slow down the infection rate."

The ministry used to make predictions about the number of infected people and officials claimed that most of the projections ...