Opinion
COVID-19 situation in Nepal
Hom Nath Chalise*
Published: 27 April, 2020 | Volume 4 - Issue 1 | Pages: 033-034
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) which first appeared in China spread gradually all over the world within three months [1]. China was the only country mainly affected by Covid-19 until February 2020, but from the beginning of March, the disease started to spread rapidly to South Korea. It reached Italy in the second week of March and the number of cases increased rapidly in Spain and other European countries in the third week of March then the virus crossed the Atlantic and entered into the United States and other countries in the Americas. WHO declared COVID-19 as a pandemic disease on 11th March 2020 [2]. As of 23rd April 2020, there have been 2,645,785 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 185,121 deaths and 726,827 recoveries [3]. Slowly, Nepal is also into the scene of the COVID-19 affected countries.
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DOI: 10.29328/journal.apmh.1001015
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Keywords:
COVID-19; Coronavirus; Nepal-India relation; Nepal
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