The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) on Wednesday confirmed the detection of 8,454 new cases of coronavirus infection. With this, the COVID count has reached 927,880. Additionally, 2,883 persons have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in the antigen test.
Likewise, the MoHP has recorded 5 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. The ministry on May 19 recorded 184 deaths, the highest daily number. As of Wednesday, the nationwide death toll from COVID-19 has reached 11,672. Presently, there are 90,067 active cases in Nepal.
Meanwhile, the three districts of Kathmandu valley alone have recorded 2,900 cases in the past 24 hours. Kathmandu logged 2,041 cases, Lalitpur logged 566 cases and Bhaktapur logged 293 cases, as per the data released by the MoHP.
As many as 4,433 patients of COVID-19 have recovered in the past 24 hours. As of Wednesday, a total of 831,712 people have recovered from the viral disease, the data released by the MoHP showed. Presently, the recovery rate stands at 89.1 percent while the fatality rate is 1.4 percent.
Earlier, the MoHP on Tuesday confirmed the detection of 12,008 new cases of coronavirus infection.
As of Wednesday, a total of 5,169,968 people have undergone the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test. Presently, there are 88,248 people staying in isolation while 171 others have been placed in quarantine in the country.
359,345,436 people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus worldwide while at least 5,634,648 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.
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