Is there a new variant of COVID in Nepal?

KATHMANDU: SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2021 – It is said that the pressure of serious patients has suddenly increased at the government hospital Shukraraj Tropical and Communicable Diseases Hospital Teku in Kathmandu where corona virus is being treated.

There are 13 intensive care units in the ICU, hospital spokesman and infectious disease specialist Dr. Anup Bastola has told. This time around, half of the patients were people under the age of 50 with Covid pneumonia. Bastola explains.

“This indicates that the UK variant is working in a different way, or that this may have been due to a lot of negligence on the part of the youth,” he said. So far, the number of corona virus infected people in Nepal is around 280,000 and the number of deaths has exceeded 3,000.

Doctors are comparing the current situation with the rise in the infection rate last Bhadra-Asoj. Dr. Bastola says, “The infection is spreading inside. It can explode at any time. ”

Experts say that a new type of corona virus can spread very quickly.

Doctors say that the school has reopened at the same time and now it has become significant even among the children. Doctors said that people who were tired, had a headache, and had no special symptoms, such as fever, returned to the hospital and developed pneumonia.

On Friday, an infectious disease specialist working at a private hospital in Kathmandu, Dr. Anup Subedi said, “This time, if someone gets sick due to Covid in the bulge, it will be more difficult to treat than in the previous bulge, and the death rate is likely to be higher.”

Meanwhile, a second wave of corona virus has been reported in India. Not only have new types of corona viruses been found, but they have also been found to have double mutations. According to Nepali experts, Nepal’s border with India should be strictly monitored.

The Nepalese government has said it has introduced a gene-sequencing method to test for the effects of new types of viruses, but that it is a very expensive method and can only be used to determine the status of certain groups or places.