COVID-19 update: 197 New Infections and 329 Recoveries

Kathmandu / Dec. 9: With 197 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Thursday, the nation’s novel coronavirus tally has reached 823,554.

In 8,018 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 197 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 14 people in 1,433 antigen tests performed in the last 24 hours.

Currently, there are 6,105 active cases of COVID-19 across the nation of which, 272 are admitted to various institutional isolation while 5,833 patients are placed in home isolation.

Of the active patients, 121 are admitted to the ICU and 30 are under treatment with the ventilator facility.

Meanwhile, 329 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 805,900 cases of recovery, and the recovery rate is at 97.8 per cent.

The MoHP on Thursday added two COVID-19 related fatalities to the nation’s COVID-19 death toll, which has now reached 11,549.