Nepal’s Health Ministry has said it was unable to cope with the increasing number of Covid 19 infections, Kathmandu Post reported.  

 “As the number of infections has been increasing, the health system is not able to cope and a situation has already arisen in which hospital beds cannot be made available,” the ministry said in a statement.

The ministry said besides the three districts of the Valley, coronavirus infections were spreading “dangerously” in 19 other districts–Morang, Sunsari, Jhapa, Parsa, Bara, Dhanusha, Chitwan, Makawanpur, Kavrepalanchok, Kaski, Dang, Banke, Rupandehi, Palpa, Bardiya, Kapilvastu, Surkhet, Kailali and Kanchanpur.

 “We request all of you to be sensible,” the ministry said.

The number of active Covid cases stands at 38,813. So far, 323,187 people have tested positive since the country first reported its first Covid-19 case in the third week of January last year.

The death toll has reached 3,279.

Nepal started to report a spike in Covid-19 cases about three weeks after India reported a massive surge in coronavirus infections. On February 1, India had reported 11,427 coronav