Nepal reports 271 new COVID cases, 1 death

The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) on Wednesday confirmed the detection of 271 new cases of coronavirus infection. With this, the COVID count has reached 997,346. Additionally, 47 people have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in the antigen test.

Likewise, the MoHP has recorded 1 death from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. The ministry on May 19 recorded 184 deaths, the highest daily number. As of Wednesday, the nationwide death toll from COVID-19 has reached 12,001. Presently, there are 3194 active cases in Nepal.

Meanwhile, the three districts of Kathmandu valley alone have recorded 147 cases in the past 24 hours. Kathmandu logged 110 cases, Lalitpur logged 29 cases and Bhaktapur logged 8 cases, as per the data released by the MoHP.

As many as 175 patients of COVID-19 have recovered in the past 24 hours. As of Wednesday, a total of 982,151 people have recovered from the viral disease, the data released by the MoHP showed. Presently, the recovery rate stands at 98.5 percent while the fatality rate is 1.2 percent.

As of Wednesday, a total of 5,890,203 people have undergone the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test.

607,319,177 people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus worldwide while at least 6,492,384 people have died from COVID-19, following an outbreak that started in Wuhan, China, in 2019-December, COVID-19 Global tracker data shown by Reuters.