By A Staff Reporter

Kathmandu, May 24: Manmohan Memorial Community Hospital (MMCH), Seshnarayan Health Post and all the ward offices of Dakshinkali Municipality have been sealed off after seven people tested positive in RDT coronavirus test.
The frontline health workers of the MMCH, public representatives and staffs of municipality and Dakshinkali Area Management Committee have tested RDT positive.
Three days ago, the municipality had carried out RDT in 450 people of the municipality. Of them, seven people tested RDT positive.
Of the seven RDT positive people, three were health workers of Manmohan Memorial Community Hospital and one is a driver of garbage carrying truck, said Mohan Basnet, mayor of Dakshinkali Municipality.
This restriction would be enforced until their PCR reports would arrive, he added.
The meeting of the City Level Coordination Committee on Thursday had decided to seal off such areas to control the virus outbreak. After the locals of the municipality tested RDT positive, the municipality has set up central quarantine at Tribhuvan Aadarsha Secondary School.
Basnet said the municipality would later develop quarantine facility at Chalnakhel Primary Health Post located at ward 1.
Those who tested RDT positive are now in self-quarantine, he added. The municipality has been preparing to set up quarantine at each ward said Basnet.
The community school would be developed as quarantine centre and the municipality would bear all the expenses of quarantine.
The municipality has also forwarded the process of buying essential equipment to intensify the COVID-19 test.
The municipality has also decided to form Case Investigation and Contact Tracing Team (CICT).