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cord-276150-hp174yft	Basnet, Sangita	COVID-19 Containment Efforts of a Low-Resource Nation: The First Four Months in Nepal	2020-07-01		.txt	text/plain	3319	188	54	In our review, we determined that the key steps taken by Nepal included border control to prevent the importation of cases, strict quarantine in facilities for anyone entering the country, early case detection, and isolation of all infected cases irrespective of symptoms. Towards the end of March, there were five cases that had arrived from China, Europe, and Dubai that tested positive and were placed in isolation in COVID-19-designated hospitals in Kathmandu. On May 7, in order to increase the rate of testing in the limited number of facilities, PCR of pooled samples of individuals in quarantine and low risk for COVID-19 was started at a ratio of 1:5. After the initial cases introduced into Kathmandu by flight in early March as detailed above, there was a cohort of a few dozen Indian nationals adjacent to the border entering Nepal from India by land that tested positive.	./cache/cord-276150-hp174yft.txt	./txt/cord-276150-hp174yft.txt