94 new cases on RT-PCR and 415 recoveries in 24 hours

Kathmandu / Feb. 27: With 94 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Sunday, the nation’s novel coronavirus tally has reached 976,865.

In 6,486 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 94 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 17 people in 3,224 antigen tests performed in the last 24 hours.

Currently, there are 8,517 active cases of COVID-19 across the nation of which, 232 are admitted to various institutional isolation while 8,285 patients are placed in home isolation.

Of the active patients, 81 are admitted to the ICU and 10 are under treatment with the ventilator facility.

Meanwhile, 415 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 956,413 cases of recovery, and the recovery rate is at 97.9 per cent.

The MoHP on Sunday added one COVID-19 related fatality to the nation’s COVID-19 death toll, which has now reached 11,935.