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POKHARA
RSS
The Pokhara Metropolitan City in Kaski district is preparing to use private hotels here as pay-isolation facilities with the rise in COVID-19 cases lately which could lead to a shortage of isolation and quarantine facilities.
Metropolis mayor Man Bahadur GC shared that those infected without showing symptoms and not in a condition to get admitted to the hospital could opt to stay in such pay-isolation. The local authority was holding talks with concerned hoteliers for the same, informed mayor GC.
Currently, the agriculture training centre in Pokhara has been converted into a 40-room isolation facility and the Metropolis has been running pay-quarantine for those suspected of being infected. A total of 24 hotels are now pay-quarantine facilities.
In the to-be-built pay-isolation facility, one will need to pay Rs 1,000 to Rs 2,000 per day depending on the services the hotels provide as well as the standard of the hotels.
The Metropolis has also arranged quarantine facility for those with weak financial background to be quarantined in their respective houses.
Among the 39,921 swab samples collected from various labs in Gandaki State, 1,889 were found to have contracted infection, informed Gandaki State Health Directorate.
There are currently 830 quarantine facilities while the number of isolation facilities stands at 261 in the Gandaki State.
A total of 19,315 Nepalis returned to Gandaki State from India and other third countries since March 24.
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