Kathmandu, Aug. 23 -- When Dr Bishow Bandhu Bagale and his wife, Dr Anita Bhandari, tested positive for the coronavirus last week, both decided to do what as medical professionals they should have done. The couple stayed in home isolation.

What, however, came as a shock to them was a group of people declared the area, where their house is in Bharatpur-4, Chitwan, an "infected zone". A banner even read: "Caution, do not enter." As though it was not enough, they even tried to put a poster on their house that read "danger".

Bagale is a senior superintendent at Ratnanagar Hospital and Bhandari works at Bharatpur Hospital in Chitwan district.

"I showed them the lock I had put in the gate from inside," Bagale told the Post over the phone. "I...