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COVID-19: Nepal thanks India for providing medical kits

NE NOW NEWS by NE NOW NEWS
May 17, 2020 3:49 pm
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Nepal thanked India on Sunday for providing medical supplies, including testing kits,  to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

“Sincere thanks to the Government of India for providing medical logistics and testing kits for 30,000 tests which were handed over to the Ministry of Health and Population today as a part of ongoing cooperation to fight the pandemic,” tweeted the foreign affairs minister of Nepal Pradeep Gyawali.

Sincere thanks to the Government of India for providing medical logistics and testing kits for 30,000 tests which were handed over to the Ministry of Health and Population today as a part of ongoing cooperation to fight the pandemic.

— Pradeep Gyawali (@PradeepgyawaliK) May 17, 2020

 

India on Sunday gifted the medical supplies to Nepal to help it fight the coronavirus pandemic.

The Pathodetect COVID-19 Qualitative Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test kits were handed over by India’s Ambassador Vinay Mohan Kwatra to Nepal’s Minister for Health and Population Bhanubhakta Dhakal.

The kits will help Nepal to conduct PCR tests on about 30,000 people, a statement by the Indian embassy said

“Gifting of medicines and test kits manifests the continuing cooperation of our leaders and people of the two countries to prepare, act and fight together with the common challenge of COVID-19 pandemic,” the statement added.

So far 281 people have tested positive in Nepal and it reported its first COVID-19 death on Saturday.

The country so far has conducted 26,691 tests and there are 244 active cases and 36 patients have recovered in Nepal so far.

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