1,103 new cases of COVID-19, 1,550 recoveries and Nine fatalities in 24 hours

Kathmandu / Sept 24: With 1,103 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Friday, the nation’s novel coronavirus tally has reached 789,872.

In 10,575 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 1,103 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its daily update.

Likewise, the virus infection was detected in 373 people in 5,115 antigen tests performed in the last 24 hours.

Currently, there are 20,287 active cases of COVID-19 across the nation of which, 1,318 are admitted to various institutional isolation while 18,969 patients are placed in home isolation. Currently, 244 people are placed in quarantine.

Of the active patients, 347 are admitted to the ICU and 105 are under treatment with the ventilator facility.

Meanwhile, 1,550 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 758,504 cases of recovery.

The Health Ministry also added nine fatalities to the nation’s COVID-19 death toll, which has now reached 11,081.