The two-year-old girl who died at the isolation ward of Bajura District Hospital Sunday morning has tested positive taking the COVID-19 death toll in Nepal to 8.
Social Development Minister of Far West Krishna Raj Subedi confirmed that the girl tested positive. "The health director called me and informed that the girl tested positive. Her mother has also tested positive," Subedi told Setopati.
Director of the Far West Health Directorate Dr Guna Raj Awasthi also corroborated that. "Her father, however, has tested negative," Awasthi told Setopati.
The girl from Budhiganga municipality 1 had arrived from Delhi a week ago and showed symptoms like fever, diarrhea and respiratory problems. She was unconscious when her parents brought her to the hospital four days back.
This is the eighth death confirmed by Nepal.
The government on May 16 had confirmed that the 29-year-old new mother from Ramche in Bahrabise municipality, Sindhupalchowk was the first to die of COVID-19 in Nepal on May 14. The 25-year old man who died while quarantined in Banke on May 17 was the second.
The 70-year-old man who died at National Medical College in Birgunj on May 17 was the third and the 41-year-old man from Madane rural municipality of Gulmi who died at Crimson Hospital on May 21 the fourth.
The man who died in India while returning to Nepal on May 23 was the fifth while the man from Bungmati Lalitpur who died on May 27 the sixth.
The 35-year-old man from Dullu-11 of Dailekh who died in the quarantine facility of Dullu-7 was the seventh.
