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Nepal Covid-19 tally: 1,120 new cases, 1,112 recoveries, 12 deaths in 24 hours

File: A woman’s swab sample is being collected for the coronavirus test, in Kathmandu, in July 2020.

Kathmandu, September 2

The Ministry of Health and Population has informed that the country’s Covid-19 tally has reached 41,649 as of Wednesday afternoon.

In his daily press briefing in Kathmandu, the ministry’s spokesperson Jageshwor Gautam said 1,120 new cases were confirmed in the country in the past 24 hours. Of late, 388 are from the Kathmandu valley.

In this period, 12,879 swab samples were tested. So far, 718,439 people have been tested in the country.

Of the total cases so far 23,290 people have achieved recovery whereas 251 died, according to him. In the past 24 hours, 1,112 people have been discharged whereas 12 deaths have been reported. Nepal’s current recovery rate is around 56 per cent.

The other 18,108 cases are active currently. Of them, 10,493 are isolated in hospitals across the country. The rest 7,615 are in home isolation.

Of those hospitalised, 144 are in intensive care units and 18 are on ventilators.

The disease has spread across all 77 districts of the country. Of them, Morang, Sunsari, Dhanusha, Parsa, Rautahat, Mahottari, Sarlahi, Bara, Chitwan, Rupandehi, Lalitpur, and Kathmandu have more than 500 active cases each. Solukhumbu, Bhojpur, Taplejung, Mustang, Dolpa, Mugu, and Humla do not have any active cases.

Over 7,700 people are quarantined across the country, waiting to be tested.

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