10 May 2020, Chitwan
A 63-year-old woman has tested positive for COVID-19 the fifth time. She is undergoing treatment at Bharatpur hospital.
According to the information officer Liladhar Poudel, the test carried out at the National Public Health Laboratory, Kathmandu confirmed a positive result.
The result was received on Saturday. She is undergoing treatment since April 15, after being found positive to a RDT test.
A PCR test carried out on her and her two sons later found her and one of the sons positive. The 27-year-old infected son has already recovered and discharged from the hospital.
They had returned to Nepal from the UK via Hong Kong in mid-March. A resident of Rapti municipality-8, they had reached home via Kathmandu.
Meanwhile, 46 more samples are being tested for coronavirus at the COVID-19 laboratory in Bharatpur.
