The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) on Tuesday reported 160 new cases of coronavirus infection in Nepal. The addition of new cases has taken the country’s COVID-19 tally to 272,215.

Of the newly infected, 61 are females and 99 are males.

Meanwhile, the three districts of Kathmandu valley has reported 79 new cases of coronavirus infection — 67 in Kathmandu, seven in Lalitpur and five in Bhaktapur — in the last 24 hours. Of the newly infected, 29 are females and 50 are males. 

As many as 165 patients of COVID-19 have recovered in the past 24 hours. With this, a total of 268,431 persons infected with coronavirus in the country have recovered as of Tuesday. At present, the recovery rate stands at 98.6 per cent as per the data released by the MoHP. 

The ministry also reported the death of two persons from the respiratory contagion in the past 24 hours. With this, the death toll from COVID-19 has reached 2,047. Presently, there are 1,737 active cases in Nepal. 

Earlier, the MoHP on Monday had reported 130 new cases of coronavirus infection that had taken the COVID-19 tally to 272,055. 

More than 106.54 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus worldwide while at least 2,325,299 people have died from COVID-19, following an outbreak that started in Wuhan, China, in early December, a Reuters tally showed.

The World Health Organisation referred to it as a pandemic on March 11, 2020.