COVID-19 update: 245 new infections and 256 recoveries in 24 hours

Kathmandu / Nov. 30: With 245 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Tuesday, the nation’s novel coronavirus tally has reached 821,366.

In 4,329 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 245 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its regular update.

Likewise, the virus infection was detected in 10 people in 2,140 antigen tests performed in the last 24 hours.

Currently, there are 6,931 active cases of COVID-19 across the nation of which, 342 are admitted to various institutional isolation while 6,589 patients are placed in home isolation.

Of the active patients, 116 are admitted to the ICU and 33 are under treatment with the ventilator facility.

Meanwhile, 256 COVID-19 patients receiving treatment in institutional isolation or staying in home isolation recovered from the infection in the last 24 hours. Nepal has now recorded 802,909 cases of recovery, and the recovery rate is at 97.7 per cent.

The MoHP on Tuesday added two COVID-19 related fatalities to the nation’s COVID-19 death toll, which has now reached 11,526.