First Case of COVID-19 in the Far Western Province of Nepal
Recently emerged worldwide public health problem coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS Cov-2); end of 2019 it was identified as the cause of a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, a city in the Hubei Province of Chi...
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Karnali Academy of Health Sciences
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| author | Sher Bahadur Kamar Nirajan Datta Sharma Santosh Pandey Ramesh Shahi Jagadish Joshi Pradip Mishra Hem Raj Pande Kapil Amgain |
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Recently emerged worldwide public health problem coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS Cov-2); end of 2019 it was identified as the cause of a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, a city in the Hubei Province of China. It rapidly spread, resulting in an epidemic throughout China, followed by pandemic throughout the world as well as in Nepal. Finally far western province became the fourth case of Nepal and index case of this province. A 34 year old male presented Seti Provincial hospital fever clinic with the complaints of fever, cough, sore throat and history of travel from Dubai to Nepal. He was kept in isolation and throat swab result was positive for SARS CoV-2. Other systemic examination and routine investigation were within normal. Course of illness was uneventful and managed conservatively. First, second and third RT-PCR became positive and fourth and fifth turned into negative and discharged at the 29th day of admission.
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| spelling | doaj.art-997ed16321d6490491840ecf682ed7d32023-10-31T15:45:52ZengKarnali Academy of Health SciencesJournal of Karnali Academy of Health Sciences2616-00642676-13272020-10-013First Case of COVID-19 in the Far Western Province of NepalSher Bahadur Kamar0Nirajan Datta Sharma1Santosh Pandey2Ramesh Shahi3Jagadish Joshi4Pradip Mishra5Hem Raj Pande6Kapil Amgain7Department of Internal Medicine, Seti Provincial HospitalDepartment of Internal Medicine, Seti Provincial HospitalDepartment of Internal Medicine, Seti Provincial HospitalDepartment of Pathology, Seti provincial Hospital, Dhangadhi, KailaiDepartment of Emergency Seti Provincial Hospital, Dhangadhi, KailaiDepartment of Paediatric, Seti Provincial Hospital, DhangadhiDepartment of Paediatric, Seti Provincial Hospital, DhangadhiDepartment of Clinical Anatomy & Cell Biology, School of Medicine, Karnali Academy Of Health Sciences (KAHS), Karnali Province, Jumla Recently emerged worldwide public health problem coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS Cov-2); end of 2019 it was identified as the cause of a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, a city in the Hubei Province of China. It rapidly spread, resulting in an epidemic throughout China, followed by pandemic throughout the world as well as in Nepal. Finally far western province became the fourth case of Nepal and index case of this province. A 34 year old male presented Seti Provincial hospital fever clinic with the complaints of fever, cough, sore throat and history of travel from Dubai to Nepal. He was kept in isolation and throat swab result was positive for SARS CoV-2. Other systemic examination and routine investigation were within normal. Course of illness was uneventful and managed conservatively. First, second and third RT-PCR became positive and fourth and fifth turned into negative and discharged at the 29th day of admission. http://jkahs.org.np/jkahs/index.php/jkahs/article/view/364COVID 19isolation nasopharyngeal swabfeverRT-PCR |
| spellingShingle | Sher Bahadur Kamar Nirajan Datta Sharma Santosh Pandey Ramesh Shahi Jagadish Joshi Pradip Mishra Hem Raj Pande Kapil Amgain First Case of COVID-19 in the Far Western Province of Nepal Journal of Karnali Academy of Health Sciences COVID 19 isolation nasopharyngeal swab fever RT-PCR |
| title | First Case of COVID-19 in the Far Western Province of Nepal |
| title_full | First Case of COVID-19 in the Far Western Province of Nepal |
| title_fullStr | First Case of COVID-19 in the Far Western Province of Nepal |
| title_full_unstemmed | First Case of COVID-19 in the Far Western Province of Nepal |
| title_short | First Case of COVID-19 in the Far Western Province of Nepal |
| title_sort | first case of covid 19 in the far western province of nepal |
| topic | COVID 19 isolation nasopharyngeal swab fever RT-PCR |
| url | http://jkahs.org.np/jkahs/index.php/jkahs/article/view/364 |
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