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Everyone quarantined won’t be tested for coronavirus now onwards

File: Coronavirus tests are underway at a lab in Nepalgunj.

Kathmandu, June 5

Owing to the high number of people coming back home from India, the government has decided not to conduct the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test for coronavirus for everyone quarantined.

The government has recently revised its testing guideline, which has removed the quarantined people who recently came back from India from its priority list.

According to the new guideline, the priority groups consist of three categories only. Members of the community where the coronavirus outbreak has spread, isolated people, and those who had direct contacts with the infected persons consist of the first category.

Likewise, the second category includes front-line security personnel, health workers, chronic disease patients, and ambulance drivers. The third category includes people showing symptoms of coronavirus infection.

The new guideline says the quarantined people can be sent to their houses if they do not have any symptoms.  Even if some people show symptoms initially, but do not show any in the final three days of the 14-day quarantine, they can go their houses.

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