Prime Minister (PM) KP Sharma Oli has convened Cabinet meeting Sunday to take a decision on the ongoing lockdown.
The current extension of the nationwide lockdown is ending Monday. The government is preparing to extend the lockdown.
A minister confided with Setopati that there is no alternative to extending the lockdown now despite the High Level Coordination Committee for Prevention and Control of COVID-19 discussion on changing modality of lockdown from May 18.
The committee will meet in the afternoon, a few hours before the Cabinet meeting, to provide recommendations, according to Lokendra KC, the press coordinator to Deputy Prime Minister Ishwore Pokharel.
The number of infection has been rising significantly in the last week while the government confirmed first COVID-19 death on Saturday.