People may defy lockdown now

People may defy lockdown now

Kathmandu, 1 June: At a time when medical experts are lauding for “testing, testing and testing”, the government is continuing ‘lockdown’ as the best medicine for Covid-19 pandemic.

The nation is in the third month of lockdown, yet, the government is unable to give alternate to lockdown. Along with extension of the lockdown period, spread rate of Covid-19 pandemic has inclined.

The best medicine is to conduct PCR test at mass and keeping Covid19 infected people in isolation, unfortunately, the government has failed while doing so. The government has failed to manage quarantine and isolation venues. The government had to keep on hold to the people entering Nepal from India at the border points and conduct PCR test on them before they travel to their home. On this also, the government has failed and the pandemic has become vulnerable in the country.

As all the activities have been halt for more than two months due to the lockdown, poor and middleclass people are suffering from different problems, including financial crunch, scarcity of food and mental health problem is on the rise. People now have reached to the stage of defying the lockdown. Their agitation can be witnessed in social networks.

People’s News Monitoring Service