"They have recovered and are normal like us now. They don´t have any symptom of the disease now," Director of the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division Dr Senendra Raj Uprety said. "They will be allowed to walk along freely after a few days," he added. [break]
Dr Uprety said that the trio was given tamiflu vaccine from Friday, although the disease was confirmed only on Sunday, and the seven-day course will be complete on Thursday. "Patients are generally freed from quarantine after the completion of medication but we are taking precautions and will keep them for a few days," Dr Uprety reasoned.
They were allowed to remain on self-quarantine at an apartment, reportedly under the supervision of the boy´s grandfather who himself is a doctor, because of the separate health condition of the child.
The trio -- who arrived in Kathmandu on vacation from Washington via Doha on a Qatar Airways flight along with another child on June 21 -- was confirmed Sunday to have been infected, raising concerns among the public as well as health officials.
The epidemiology division says that it tracked more than 100 foreigners and Nepalis out of around 200 aboard that Qatar Airways flight and found no one with any symptom of the disease. “We have relaxed our tracking effort now as it is well over the (seven-day) incubation period for the virus,†Dr Uprety said.
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