The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) on Thursday confirmed the detection of 27 new cases of coronavirus infection. With this, the COVID count has reached 978,107. Additionally, 5 persons have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in the antigen test.
Likewise, the MoHP has not recorded any deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. The ministry on March 19 recorded 184 deaths, the highest daily number. Presently, there are 4376 active cases in Nepal.
As many as 220 patients of COVID-19 have recovered in the past 24 hours. As of Thursday, a total of 961,781 people have recovered from the viral disease, the data released by the MoHP showed. Presently, the recovery rate stands at 98.3 percent while the fatality rate is 1.2 percent.
As of today, a total of 5,498,412 people have undergone the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test. Presently, there are 4,376 people staying in home isolation.
462,281,047 people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus worldwide while at least 6,075,308 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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