KATHMANDU, May 18: Tenzingchowk area in Budhanilkantha, Kathmandu has been sealed off after an 18-year-old girl, currently residing in Budhanilakantha Municipality-12 and originally from Ramnagar, Sarlahi, tested positive for coronavirus through the PCR testing process. 

Budhanilkantha mayor Uddhav Prasad Kharel informed the media that the area surrounding 250 meters from the residence of the infected girl has been sealed after her PCR report came positive. 

With the confirmation of the virus infection, she has been kept in an isolation ward at the Teku-based Shukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital. Some 15 persons who had come in her contact were tested for the virus through the     PCR method. 

The area has been sealed to adopt additional alert measures to prevent the outbreak of COVID-19 following the confirmation of the case. 

People’s mobility from one tole to another in the area has been restricted for three consecutive days, it is learnt. Police and volunteers have been mobilized to check the people's mobility in the restricted area.

 
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