As many as 41 laboratories across the nation have been found not conducting the Covid-19 tests.
The Ministry of Health and Population said that Nobel Medical College Teaching Hospital in Biratnagar, Gajendra Narayan Singh Hospital in Rajbiraj, Province Public Health Laboratory in Janakpur, Kalaiya Hospital, Malangawa Hospital, Bir Hospital, Star Hospital, Nepal Korea Friendship Municipality Hospital, BP Koirala Memorial Cancer Hospital, Chitwan, Trishuli Hospital, Bhaktapur Hospital , Janamaitri Hospital and Shahid GangaLal Hospital among others are the 41 government and private laboratories which have not been conducting the tests.
National Public Health Laboratory had given permission to 104 government and private laboratories to conduct the Covid-19 tests.
