Four aides of Nepal PM test positive for Covid

Kathmandu, Oct 3 : Four key aides of Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli tested positive for Covid-19 on Saturday.
Another 70 security personal deployed in the Prime Minister’s residence have also tested positive. This was found during a routine testing conducted at the PM’s residence on Friday.
Now concerns have been raised over the health of Prime Minister Oli due to his chronic health condition, age factor and the recent kidney transplant, but his private secretariat has ruled out any immediate risk to Oli’ health. Still he will undergo a test very soon after his key aides and associates tested positive fpr the virus.
Oli’s three key aides — Chief Political Advisor Bishnu Rimal, Foreign Relations Advisor Rajan Bhattarai and Press Advisor Surya Thapa — have tested positive along with his Chief Personal Assistant, Indra Bhandari.
Rimal, Bhattarai and Thapa announced in Twitter that they have tested positive for coronavirus.
Likewise, Rajan Kafle, the personal photographer of Oli, some security guards and drivers deployed at his residence have also tested positive.