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Nepal reports 2,874 new COVID cases, 59 deaths on Thursday

Nationwide COVID tally hits 601,687; death toll reaches 8,238


Nepalnews
2021 Jun 10, 18:05, Kathmandu

Nepal's Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) Thursday reported 2,874 new cases of coronavirus infection. With this, the COVID count has reached 601,687. Additionally, 875 persons have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in the antigen test.

Likewise, the Health Ministry has recorded 59 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. The ministry on May 19 recorded 246 deaths, the highest daily number. As of Thursday, the nationwide death toll from COVID-19 has reached 8,238. Presently, there are 77,858 active cases in Nepal.

Meanwhile, the three districts of Kathmandu valley have recorded 764 cases in the past 24 hours. Kathmandu registered 540 cases, Lalitpur 125 cases and Bhaktapur registered 99 cases, as per the data released by the MoHP.

As many as 5,293 patients of COVID-19 have recovered in the past 24 hours. As of Thursday, a total of 515,591 people have recovered from the viral disease, the data released by the MoHP showed. Presently, the recovery rate stands at 85.7 per cent.

Earlier, the MoHP on Tuesday had reported 3,449 cases of coronavirus infection that had taken the nationwide tally to 598,813.

As of Thursday, a total of 3,189,104 persons have undergone the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test. Presently, there are 77,858 persons staying in isolation while 616 others have been placed in quarantine in the country.

More than 174.60 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus worldwide while at least 3,922,886 people have died from COVID-19, following an outbreak that started in Wuhan, China, in early December, a Reuters tally showed as of 5:44 pm, on Thursday, June 10, 2021.

The World Health Organisation referred to it as a pandemic on March 11, 2020.

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