Lamjung, Aug 28 

Coronavirus infection has been confirmed in two persons, including a media person, in Lamjung district today, the District administration Office said.

The 27-year-old media person works at a media house based in the district and he is from local Besisahar Municipality-8. The next infected is a 39-year-old woman of Marsyangdi rural municipality-4 and she had arrived in the district from India five days back. She had been kept in quarantine at the rural municipality.

The media person has been kept in isolation at the building of the Urban Development Office at Besisahar Municipality-7 while the woman is kept in isolation at the Lamjung District Community Hospital at Besisahar. Both are said to be in normal health. One hundred and forty five persons including 11 women were infected with coronavirus so far in Lamjung district.

Of them, 111 have returned home after health recovery. At present 34 people including two women are undergoing treatment in isolation at various places of the district.