KATHMANDU: The government has decided to take the two-week long lockdown to its third week.

Nepal had gone into a nationwide lockdown on March 24 as the government decreed the measure in a bid to slowdown the chain of coronavirus transmission.

It is to be noted that the country entered stage-two of transmission on April 4 with its first local person-to-person infection confirmed.

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