The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) on Thursday confirmed the detection of 1,369 new cases of coronavirus infection. With this, the COVID count has reached 971,475. Additionally, 356 persons have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in the antigen test.
Likewise, the MoHP has recorded 12 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. The ministry on May 19 recorded 184 deaths, the highest daily number. As of Thursday, the nationwide death toll from COVID-19 has reached 11,864. Presently, there are 29,004 active cases in Nepal.
Meanwhile, the three districts of Kathmandu valley alone have recorded 329 cases in the past 24 hours. Kathmandu logged 235 cases, Lalitpur logged 64 cases and Bhaktapur logged 30 cases, as per the data released by the MoHP.
As many as 2,238 patients of COVID-19 have recovered in the past 24 hours. As of Thursday, a total of 930,607 people have recovered from the viral disease, the data released by the MoHP showed. Presently, the recovery rate stands at 95.8 per cent while the fatality rate is 1.3 per cent.
Earlier, the MoHP on Wednesday confirmed the detection of 2,401 new cases of coronavirus infection.
As of Thursday, a total of 5,312,442 people have undergone the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test. Presently, there are 29,004 people staying in isolation while 133 others have been placed in quarantine in the country.
398,240,173 people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus worldwide while at least 5,769,634 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 132 countries where The United States is the new hotspot of COVID-19 facing a daily surge of rapid infections.
