Kathmandu: Nepal is building public quarantine facilities with a capacity to accommodate at least 5,000 individuals in Kathmandu valley.

As per the decision, each province and metropolitan city will be asked to build quarantine facilities that can accommodate at least 2,000 individuals, the HImalayan News Service said. .

Every sub-metropolitan city will have to build 1,000-bed quarantine facilities. Similarly, municipalities and rural municipalities of Himalayan region will have to build 500-bed quarantine centres. In the hilly region, they have to establish 1,000-bed facilities and in Tarai region they have to build 2,000-bed public quarantine facilities.