COVID-19 update: 97 new cases and 66 recoveries in 24 hours

Kathmandu / Mar. 11: The Ministry of Health and Population on Thursday confirmed 97 new cases of COVID-19, taking the nation’s novel coronavirus tally to 275,070.

“In 4,444 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, 97 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2,” updated the Ministry of Health and Population in its website.

Currently, there are 942 active cases of COVID-19. Likewise, a total of 59 people, mostly those who had returned from abroad are placed in quarantine across the nation.

Meanwhile, 66 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 271,116 cases of recovery and the recovery rate is at 98.6 per cent.

Moreover, no fatality related to COVID-19 was confirmed in Nepal in the last 24 hours. Currently, the COVID-19 death toll stands at 3,012.