Health Ministry reports 1,577 new COVID cases, 25 deaths on Friday

The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) Friday confirmed the detection of 1,577 new cases of coronavirus infection. With this, the COVID count has reached 756,492. Additionally, 488 persons have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in the antigen test.

Likewise, the MoHP has recorded 25 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. The ministry on May 19 recorded 246 deaths, the highest daily number. As of Friday, the nationwide death toll from COVID-19 has reached 10,663. Presently, there are 37,599 active cases in Nepal.

Meanwhile, the three districts of Kathmandu valley have recorded 715 cases in the past 24 hours. Kathmandu logged 454 cases, Lalitpur logged 169 cases and Bhaktapur logged 92 cases, as per the data released by the MoHP.

As many as 2,337patients of COVID-19 have recovered in the past 24 hours. As of Friday, a total of 708,230people have recovered from the viral disease, the data released by the MoHP showed. Presently, the recovery rate stands at 93.6 per cent while the fatality rate is 1.5 per cent.

Earlier, the MoHP on Thursday had reported 2,052 cases of coronavirus infection that had taken the nationwide tally to 754,915.

As of Friday, a total of 3,877,469 people have undergone the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test. Presently, there are 37,599 people staying in isolation while 337 others have been placed in quarantine in the country.

Meanwhile, 2,051,077 people have been administered the first dose of Covishield vaccines and 1,059,778 have been vaccinated with the booster dose. Likewise, 3,012,445 people have been vaccinated with the first dose of the Vero Cell vaccine while 1,645,238 others have received the second dose as of August 27, 2021, the Ministry's data showed. Similarly, a total of 1,347,749 persons — 190,637 in Province 1; 270,049 in Province 2; 336,148 in Bagmati Province; 102,983 in Gandaki Province; 249,141 in Lumbini Province, 65,705 in Karnali Province, and 133,086 in Sudurpaschim Province — have been vaccinated with single-shot Janssen vaccines.

More than 214.59 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus worldwide while at least 4,649,000 people have died from COVID-19, following an outbreak that started in Wuhan, China, in 2019-December, COVID-19 Global tracker data shown by Reuters. It has been reported that COVID-19 infections are still rising in 79 countries where The United States is the new hotspot of COVID-19 facing a daily surge of rapid infections.