Butwal, April 12
Sainamaina municipality in Rupandehi district of western Nepal has quarantined 42 workers who were heading to Tikapur of Kailali district defying the nationwide lockdown imposed to control the coronavirus outbreak in the country.
The local government quarantined them after the locals saw the group and informed the mayor, Chitra Bahadur Karki.
One of the workers, Bishal Chaudhary, says they waited as long as 17 days with a hope that the lockdown would end, but began the journey after it got further extended. “We stayed around a half month without any work, then our money ran out,” he says.
Meanwhile, Karki says the workers might be allowed to go home in Tikapur later after undergoing a health checkup. Currently, they have been quarantined in Bankatta, Sainamaina-1.
