COVID-19 Update: 252 new infections and 232 recoveries

Kathmandu / Dec. 21: With 252 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Tuesday, the nation’s novel coronavirus tally has reached 826,206.

In 12,473 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 252 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 38 people in 4,616 antigen tests performed in the last 24 hours.

Currently, there are 5,242 active cases of COVID-19 across the nation of which, 249 are admitted to various institutional isolation while 4,993 patients are placed in home isolation.

Of the active patients, 95 are admitted to the ICU and 25 are under treatment with the ventilator facility.

Meanwhile, 232 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 809,387 cases of recovery, and the recovery rate is at 98 per cent.

The MoHP on Tuesday added three COVID-19 related fatalities to the nation’s COVID-19 death toll, which has now reached 11,577.