Kathmandu, June 10
The main opposition party, Nepali Congress, has demanded that the government revise its current policy of sending quarantined people who recently came to the country from India to their homes without PCR tests for coronavirus if they do not show any symptoms of Covid-19 infection.
The party’s senior leader Ram Chandra Paudel submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli this afternoon, warning the policy could spread the infection to the community level.
The opposition party has also urged the government to ensure a basic standard of quarantine facilities such as drinking water and toilet facilities, medicines, ambulances, necessary health checkup and counselling, and social distancing measures.
“The government should provide necessary financial and technical resources to the local governments to operate the facilities,” the memorandum reads, “The government has been discriminating between the local units on the basis of political belief. It has to be stopped.”
In response, the prime minister said he would consider the suggestions positively and implement them gradually, according to Oli’s press advisor Surya Thapa.
