A Nepali student who had recently reached Tasmania via Singapore tested positive for COVID-19 on 8 March.[32] On 9 March, the UAE's Health Ministry confirmed that two Nepalis in the country had tested positive for the virus.[33] On 16 March, it was reported that seventy four Nepali migrant workers were put into 14-day quarantine in Faro City, Portugal, after one of them tested positive.[34] Later, it was reported that only three of the quarantined were Nepalis.[35] Three Nepalis tested positive in Bahrain, two of them on 21 March and one on 22 March; three more were put into 14-day quarantine.[36]