Pokhara Metropolitan City has decided to halt services except for the most essential ones from today in view of the heightened risk of coronavirus.

Issuing a notice on Thursday, the metropolis said that its regular services would remain closed till January 30 since some of its employees have contracted coronavirus infection of late.

Metropolis spokesperson Dhan Bahadur Nepali said that all regular services except for the emergency ones have been halted to prevent the virus from spreading.

He further informed that the service delivery of four out of 33 wards of the metropolis has also been halted due to the COVID-19 outbreak. RSS