Three more cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Wednesday.

According to Dr Madan Kumar Upadhyaya, chief medical superintendent at Narayani Hospital in Birgunj, all of the three—two in Bara and one in Parsa—were kept in quarantine facilities in the respective districts.

Preparations are underway to transfer them to the isolation facility at Narayani Hospital. The men who tested positive on Wednesday were kept in quarantine facilities after they were found to have come into contact with two men who tested positive for the virus on Sunday.

“Samples of 94 individuals who had come into contact with the two men were collected and sent to the National Public Health Laboratory in Teku,” said Upadhyaya.

With the latest cases, Nepal’s Covid-19 tally has now reached 57.