By A Staff Reporter
Kathmandu, Aug. 10: A meeting of the directive committee of the COVID-19 Crisis Management Centre (CCMC) Sunday held intensive discussions regarding the increasing cases of the coronavirus in the capital and possible measures to be taken from the government to contain it.
"A meeting of the Council of Ministers to be held on Monday (August 10) may take some decisions after consulting with the ministers on the growing COVID-19 cases in the Kathmandu Valley and ways to tighten the valley's entry points," Mahendra Prasad Guragain, Secretary at the Office of Prime Minister and Council of Ministers and coordinator of the Committee, told The Rising Nepal.
The meeting chaired by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Ishwar Pokhrel and attended by the CCMC members (Ministers) didn't take any concrete decision this evening, but the Cabinet meeting scheduled for Monday might take some immediate decisions, he said.
The CCMC members, however, discussed about growing cases of the virus having symptoms, increasing fatality rates and the isolations centres that are running out of space in some of the districts, he informed.
The members also suggested the lined ministries to add additional isolation centres in those areas where the infection rates and deaths are increasing, Secretary Guragain said.