The health desk on the Nepal-India border at Birgunj, the country's main checkpoint, has been without a corona test kit for almost 16 months.

According to Sumanchandra Thakur, the official of Birganj Metropolitan Municipality's office health division, the last time the kit ran out on the desk was on 25th January 2080. After that, the kit did not come to the desk.

Thakur says that they have repeatedly written to the Communicable Disease Epidemic Control Division, Kathmandu, asking for kits. "We have repeatedly written to the division and asked for a kit," he said, "but the division has not received the kit, instead, instructions have been given to refer suspected patients to Narayani Hospital at the checkpoint." The risk has increased due to lack of kits at the desks of the country's major checkpoints. Thakur said that tourists entering Nepal from India and Nepalis returning from India for work and pilgrimage also have a high risk of corona infection.   

For almost 3 years, the process of finding corona infected people at the health desk here has been almost at a standstill. Out of that, since there is no kit for 16 months, the test is also closed. 

Until the fourth wave of corona infection spreads, most of the Indians who are confirmed to be infected when entering Nepal through this border will come to work in Nepal,  They were going to come to Nepal on a business trip and some for tourism and pilgrimage purposes. In the past, there has been a trend of simultaneous corona infection in India and Nepal, so the possibility of corona infection appearing in Nepal has also increased. Experts say that there is a strong possibility that the fifth wave of Corona, which appeared in India after 3 years, will soon expand its influence in Nepal.