By A Staff Reporter

Kathmandu, May 15: While tracing the travel history of a six-year-old girl, who tested coronavirus positive on Thursday at TU Teaching Hospital, Maharajgunj this morning, it was found that she along with her mother and grandfather had entered the capital riding a milk tanker on May 12 from Thankot, Kathmandu.
During police investigation, she was identified as a regular patient of the TU Teaching Hospital and came here for her fifth operation of her respiratory system.
The family members had come to Kathmandu by a milk tanker with registration number Lu 1 Ka 3239 on May 12 from Bandganga Gaunpalika-4 in Kapilvastu district.
The girl’s grandfather had a pass issued by ward chairman Ganesh Chhetri for their travel up to Kathmandu, according to Durga Raj Regmi, in-charge of Maharajgunj-based Metropolitan Police Circle.
Similarly, a woman who was identified as retired APF personnel came to Kathmandu and entered Machhegaun, Kathmandu, by a private vehicle having vehicle pass from Bedhkot of Kanchanpur district on Monday. She tested positive late Wednesday night. The woman came from Kanchanpur on a vehicle having pass issued by Kanchanpur district administration office.
Another 25-year-old woman who tested coronavirus positive in Bhaktapur Wednesday night, had also arrived in the Kathmandu Valley on a private vehicle of her uncle from Jhumka of Ramdhuni Municipality in Sunsari district.
These three cases are only references to show how the private and government vehicles possessing passes were misused to carry people to Kathmandu.
In the last one week as of Wednesday evening (May 13), a total of 4,395 goods carrying trucks entered the valley from the Thankot check post and 6,549 private and government vehicles possessing vehicle passes entered the Valley. In the same period, according to police records, 23,572 people, 5,312 private and the government vehicles entered the valley while 14,931 people exited from the Valley, according to the records of Metropolitan Police Office, Ranipokhari.
Also from Jagati of Bhaktapur, 546 goods carrying trucks, and 2,727 other private and government vehicles entered the Valley within a week. In these vehicles, 6,401 people entered the Valley. Within the same period, 574 goods carrying vehicles, and 2,349 vehicles carrying 5,752 people made their exit from the Valley.
All these people’s movement from one place to another and from one district to another has now put life at high risk of getting infected with the virus, according to Dr Anup Subedee, a senior consultant of infectious disease and general medicine.
The government should now filter only the most essential services from the listed essential service providing organisations and people to control the cases of coronavirus in the capital, he said.
The security bodies in the borders and entry points of the Capital should maintain a good surveillance method and keep their records in detail in case anyone entering the Valley is found infected with the virus, he suggested.
“The situation in the Kathmandu Valley and other districts has already reached a critical level which will not be easy to handle and treat immediately in a country like ours,” he said.
According to a police officer at Metropolitan Police Office, some people who had entered the valley managed their sources by talking to people holding top positions in the government, states, and also the security forces so that they could not be stopped at the entry points.
On Thursday alone, Thankot check post made 21 vehicles return to the same place from where they had come as of 3:00 pm, according to SSP Sushil Kumar Yadav at the Metropolitan Police Office. Also, 223 vehicles both two- and four-wheelers were impounded in Thankot for defying the lockdown as of 3 p.m.