COVID-19 update: 355 new infections and 263 recoveries

Kathmandu / Jan 4: With 355 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Tuesday, the nation’s novel coronavirus tally has reached 829,632.

In 7,794 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 355 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 1,535 antigen tests performed in the last 24 hours.

Currently, there are 5,094 active cases of COVID-19 across the nation of which, 260 are admitted to various institutional isolation while 4,834 patients are placed in home isolation.

Of the active patients, 88 are admitted to the ICU and 25 are under treatment with the ventilator facility.

Meanwhile, 263 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 812,937 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 11,601.