Kathmandu, April 4 -- Though it is no more a hot topic of discussion, coronavirus is very much present in Nepal.

Health authorities throughout the country stopped active case finding of the Covid-19 over three years ago. But variants of the coronavirus have continued to circulate in communities.

What concerns experts is that elderly people and those with underlying conditions have been getting severe from Covid infection.

"Two patients infected with the virus have been admitted to the intensive care unit of our hospital and five are in the general ward," said Dr Yuba Nidhi Basaula, director at the Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital in Teku, Kathmandu. "The number of coronavirus patients has been rising in our hospital in...