KATHMANDU: The Nepali government on Sunday (May 17) confirmed the country’s first death from the Covid-19 (coronavirus), Xinhua news agency reported.
In a statement, Nepal's Ministry of Health and Population said a 29-year-old woman from Sindhupalchwok, a district in the country's central region, died on the way to a hospital in the outskirt of the capital city Kathmandu.
The woman, who gave birth of a child on May 6 at the Kathmandu-based Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, was discharged from the hospital on May 7 after a normal delivery. "After her situation complicated, she was brought to Dhulikhel hospital on May 14 but she died on the way," Sameer Kumar Adhikari, joint spokesperson at the ministry told Xinhua.
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