482 new cases on RT-PCR, 2,319 recoveries and 8 deaths in 24 hours

Kathmandu / Feb. 14: With 482 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Monday, the nation’s novel coronavirus tally has reached 973,541.

In 6,279 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 482 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 265 people in 2,417 antigen tests performed in the last 24 hours.

Currently, there are 20,739 active cases of COVID-19 across the nation of which, 809 are admitted to various institutional isolation while 19,930 patients are placed in home isolation.

Of the active patients, 178 are admitted to the ICU and 34 are under treatment with the ventilator facility.

Meanwhile, 2,319 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 940,902 cases of recovery, and the recovery rate is at 96.6 per cent.

The MoHP on Monday added eight COVID-19 related fatalities to the nation’s COVID-19 death toll, which has now reached 11,900.