KATHMANDU: The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) has directed all the concerned stakeholders to implement a ten-day mandatory quarantine.

It also said that the people who come in contact with infected persons would have to quarantine themselves for at a minimum of 10-days from the day of transmission.

After the Incident Command System meeting held on Thursday, the ministry made the decision to manage isolation centres to quarantine infected persons for mandatory 10-days in isolation and urged all the concerned authorities to abide with the decision.