WASHINGTON: The State Department said on Friday it is allowing non-essential diplomats and the families of all American staff at the US embassy in Kathmandu to leave Nepal at government expense due a surge in coronavirus cases.
The department also advised private Americans to reconsider any plans they may have to visit the Himalayan country and asked those already there who wish to leave to submit information to the embassy. That step suggests the embassy may organise charter flights out of the country in the absence of regularly scheduled commercial flights.
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