COVID-19 update: 160 new infections and 267 recoveries in 24 hours

Kathmandu / Dec. 16: With 160 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Thursday, the nation’s novel coronavirus tally has reached 825,176.

In 7,230 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 160 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 24 people in 3,788 antigen tests performed in the last 24 hours.

Currently, there are 5,526 active cases of COVID-19 across the nation of which, 279 are admitted to various institutional isolation while 5,247 patients are placed in home isolation.

Of the active patients, 111 are admitted to the ICU and 28 are under treatment with the ventilator facility.

Meanwhile, 267 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 808,083 cases of recovery, and the recovery rate is at 97.9 per cent.

The MoHP on Thursday added two COVID-19 related fatalities to the nation’s COVID-19 death toll, which has now reached 11,567.