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Nepal reports 300 new COVID cases


Nepalnews
2022 Sep 06, 16:51, Kathmandu

The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) on Tuesday confirmed the detection of 300 new cases of coronavirus infection. With this, the COVID count has reached 998,167. Additionally, 123 people have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in the antigen test.

Likewise, the MoHP has recorded 0 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. The ministry on May 19 recorded 184 deaths, the highest daily number. As of Tuesday, the nationwide death toll from COVID-19 has reached 12,007. Presently, there are 2,444 active cases in Nepal.

Meanwhile, the three districts of Kathmandu valley alone have recorded 118 cases in the past 24 hours. Kathmandu logged 99 cases, Lalitpur logged 18 cases and Bhaktapur logged 1 case, as per the data released by the MoHP.

As many as 124 patients of COVID-19 have recovered in the past 24 hours. As of Tuesday, a total of 983,703 people have recovered from the viral disease, the data released by the MoHP showed. Presently, the recovery rate stands at 98.6 percent while the fatality rate is 1.2 percent.

As of Tuesday, a total of 5,900,167 people have undergone the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test.

610,817,437 people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus worldwide while at least 6,505,329 people have died from COVID-19, following an outbreak that started in Wuhan, China, in 2019-December.

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