The Bhimad municipality has set up an emergency fund to minimize the risk of COVID-19. The municipality has allocated Rs. 300,000 for carrying out public awareness about the deadly virus.

The fund will be used to carry out public sensitization programme at all the wards of the municipality, Mayor Mekha Bahadur Thapa said. Committees have been set up at all levels in order to work for it.

Any people suspected of carrying the virus will be rushed to the nearby health institution. An isolation centre has been established with support from the municipality at the GP Koirala respiratory disease treatment centre. The centre has 12 isolation beds.

Three health workers of the centre have been trained on collecting samples from suspected patients. Arrangement has also been made to send the samples to Kathmandu for testing.