Government suspends int’l flights till April 15 amid fears of coronavirus spread

Amid fears of coronavirus spread, the government has suspended all the international flights to and from Nepal till April 15, according to Narayan Prasad Bidari, a Secretary at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers.

A meeting of the COVID-19 Infection, Prevention and Control High-Level Coordination Committee held today in Singha Durbar took a decision to this effect by considering the existing fear of pandemic coronavirus outbreak in the country.

“As the fear of corona virus infection is on, a decision to suspend the flights was taken,” Bidari shared.

Prior to this, the government had suspended all the international flights for 10 days till March 31.