COVID-19 update: 1,948 new cases, 3,140 recoveries and 28 fatalities in 24 hours

Kathmandu / Nov. 25: With 1,948 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Wednesday, Nepal’s COVID-19 tally has surged to 226,026.

“In 9,210 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, as many as 1,948 persons were found with the novel coronavirus infection,” revealed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its daily update.

Currently, there are 16,639 active cases of COVID-19 and 669 persons, mostly those who had returned from abroad, are placed in quarantine.

Meanwhile, some 3,140 patients who were either receiving treatment in various institutional isolations or staying in home isolation recovered from the infection in the last 24 hours. Nepal has recorded 207,998 COVID-19 recoveries until now. The recovery rate of Nepal now stands at 92 per cent.

Moreover, 28 patients succumbed to the novel coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours taking the nation’s COVID-19 death toll to 1,389.

Kathmandu valley reports 835 fresh Covid-19 cases

The three districts of Kathmandu Valley reported a total of 835 new cases of coronavirus infection on Wednesday.

Of the new cases, 350 are females and 485 are males.

As many as 635 cases were recorded in Kathmandu district alone while Lalitpur and Bhaktapur reported 113 and 87 cases respectively.

The number of active cases in Kathmandu is 7,660 while that of Lalitpur and Bhaktapur are 1,499 and 580 respectively.