Kathmandu, May 23 -- Although several countries and territories-Singapore, Hong Kong of China, Thailand and India-have of late reported a surge in coronavirus cases, health authorities in Nepal say they have not noticed a rise in Covid cases here.

Officials said only one case of Covid has been detected of late. As a result, gene sequencing has also not been carried out to determine the virus's properties.

"Only one case of Covid has been detected since the start of 2025," said Dr Ranjan Raj Bhatta, director at the National Public Health Laboratory. "We don't even have enough swab samples from Covid-infected persons to carry out whole-genome sequencing."

Whole-genome sequencing is a comprehensive method of analysing the entire DNA seque...