Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Bhanubhakta Dhakal has seen KOVID-19 positive. According to Madhav Prasad Tiwari, Press Coordinator to the Minister for Tourism, Dhakala tested positive for swab on Sunday.
Along with Minister Dhakal, his wife Indira Phuyal has also been seen as positive. They are currently in isolation in both residences. Health condition is also normal. Minister Dhakal’s wife Phuyal has normal symptoms.
Similarly, tests conducted across the country have so far found more than 7,000 Covid-19 infected. At a regular press conference held by the Ministry of Health and Population today, spokesperson Dr Jageshwor Gautam said that the infection has been confirmed in 7,211 cases.
According to him, 7,137 out of 16,147 PCRs and 74 out of 623 antigen tests were found to be infected. At the same time, three lakh 36 thousand 30 people have been infected in Nepal. The highest number of infected people today are 1,809 in the age group of 30 to 39 years and 1,767 in the age group of 20 to 29 years. Similarly, there are 166 children in the age group of 9 years and 457 children in the age group of 10 to 19 years.