Kathmandu, May 17
The Embassy of India in Kathmandu has donated 30,000 kits to test the novel coronavirus to the government of Nepal.
Indian Ambassador to Nepal, Vinay Mohan Kwatra, handed over the kits to Health and Population Minister Bhanu Bhakta Dhakal in Kathmandu on Sunday.
“The consignment, as a gift from the people of India to the people of Nepal, will enable Nepali health professionals to conduct PCR tests on 30,000 people,” the embassy says in a statement today, recalling that the ambassador had also handed over 23 tonnes of medicines to the government of Nepal last month.
The embassy says the gifts manifest the “continuing cooperation of our leaders and people of two countries to prepare, act, and fight together with the common challenge of Covid-19 pandemic.”
