107 new cases of COVID-19 and 78 recoveries in 24 hours

Kathmandu / Mar. 4: The Ministry of Health and Population on Thursday confirmed 107 new cases of COVID-19, taking the nation’s novel coronavirus tally to 27488.

“In 5,536 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, 107 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2,” informed the Ministry of Health and Population in the regular press briefing.

Currently, there are 795 active cases of COVID-19. Similarly, 57 people, mostly those who had returned from abroad are placed in quarantine across the nation.

Meanwhile, 78 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 270,683 cases of recovery and the recovery rate is at 98.6 per cent.

Moreover, no fatalities were recorded across the nation on Thursday. Currently, Nepal’s COVID-19 death toll is at 3,010.