Nepal Army chief goes into self-quarantine

 Nepal's Army chief General Purna Chandara Thapa has gone into self-quarantine after his cook tested positive for COVID-19.Thapa has been staying in quarantine since Sunday morning after a cook at Army chief’s residence tested positive for COVID-19, Army said in statement.

“Thapa has been staying in quarantine following directives and criteria issued by Ministry of Health and Population,” statement said.

In Nepal, security personnel and health workers have been most affected by COVID–19 with nearly 5,000 personnel from Nepal Army and Nepal Police testing positive, according to Health Ministry sources.So far, two of Nepal Army personnel died due to COVID-19, Army sources said.

Meanwhile, Nepal’s coronavirus tally reached 73,394 after1,573 new cases were reported on Sunday.So far, 53,898 people have fully recovered from infection.With ten more fatalities reported on Sunday, country’s COVID-19 death toll reached 477.

Nepal has till date conducted PCR tests on 988,327 people through various health labs across country.