Kathmandu, July 2 -- Despite a massive surge in Covid-19 cases throughout the country, the government has yet to confirm community transmission of the disease, even though public health experts have long suspected otherwise.

While the Health Ministry has not officially confirmed community transmission, officials at the ministry have conceded that around six percent of Covid-19 cases in Nepal have been found in people with no travel history to infection zones or close contact with the infected.

"Around six percent of cases are from the communities while the rest are in quarantine where we have placed people who've returned from abroad," Dr Roshan Pokhrel, chief specialist at the Health Ministry, told the Post. "However, all cases found i...