Kathmandu, July 23
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and president
of the main opposition party Nepali Congress Sher Bahadur Deuba hold a meeting
on Thursday and discussed the situation after the lifting of the lockdown.
Deuba drew the attention of the government
regarding the steps to be taken against the floods and COVID-19 challenges.
He presented a 3-point demands and
recommendations to create a strategy to face the challenges of the pandemic
after the economic activities are open across the country.
He demanded a special and focused strategy to
fight the pandemic saying that the number of infected people had reached about
20,000 even during the lockdown.
Deuba urged the government to apply the PCR
to test the COVID-19 suspects and expressed objections to the government’s
indifference in creating standard quarantine centres.
He also urged the PM to expedite the rescue
of Nepali citizens from the foreign land and work in war footing to rescue
people affected by the floods and landslides, and operate relief and
rehabilitation programmes.
On the occasion, PM Oli told Deuba that the
government would immediately initiate measures to address the issues raised
during the meeting, according to the PM’s Press Advisor Surya Thapa.
The NC said that the party had drawn the
attention of the PM to the issues created by the pandemic and raised by the
people affected by it.
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