Kumar Timilsena had opened his store at Kupondole for just half an hour on Thursday morning when policemen came on motorcycles, sirens blaring, and told him to close his shop.

“I had just received a supply of milk from a dairy,” said the 40-year-old who operates a grocery store. “I guess the milk will go to waste now.”

Later he learned from another shop that police had been going around, announcing that stores would be allowed to open from 4am to 7am only.

On Tuesday evening, chief district officers of Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur issued prohibitory orders effective Wednesday midnight to contain the spread of the virus.

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