COVID-19 update: 1,614 new cases, 1,437 recoveries and 23 fatalities in 24 hours

Kathmandu / Nov. 26: With 1,614 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Thursday, Nepal’s COVID-19 tally has surged to 227,640.

“As many as 1,614 persons were found with the novel coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours,” revealed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its daily update.

Currently, there are 16,793 active cases of COVID-19 and 680 persons, mostly those who had returned from abroad, are placed in quarantine.

Meanwhile, some 1,437 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 209,435 COVID-19 recoveries until now.

Moreover, 23 patients succumbed to the novel coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours taking the nation’s COVID-19 death toll to 1,412.

785 additional Covid-19 cases in the valley

The three districts of Kathmandu Valley reported a total of 785 new cases of coronavirus infection on Thursday.

Of the new cases, 337 are females and 448 are males.

As many as 620 cases were recorded in Kathmandu district while Lalitpur and Bhaktapur reported 114 and 51 cases respectively.

The number of active cases in Kathmandu is at present is 7644 while those of Lalitpur and Bhaktapur are 1494 and 589 respectively.