Kathmandu, Aug. 10 -- If anyone is in isolation as Covid-19 cases continue to surge in the country, it's the government. Officials say as more and more people got infected with the coronavirus, there were expectations that the authorities would increase the number of isolation beds. But that did not happen, according to them.

On March 17, a meeting of the high-level committee to fight Covid-19, held at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, decided to set up 120 intensive care beds at six different hospitals in Kathmandu Valley.

Bir Hospital was one of them. It was allocated Rs125 million to expand its intensive care unit. However, not a single bed has been added for intensive care-at least as of Sunday.

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