KATHMANDU: Nepal reported 339 COVID-19 cases on Monday.
The total number of cases in the country has now increased to 269,789. The total number of active cases is now 3,240.
Similarly, 401 persons have recovered in the past 24 hours taking the total to 264,538.
The government has conducted 4,858 RT-PCR tests in the past 24 hours taking the total number of tests to 2,048,113 across the country until now.
Nepal reported 10 more COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours taking the total death toll to 2,011.
Meanwhile, the central and provincial government have begun full scale preparation for the vaccination drive. The government of India has provided one million doses of COVISHIELD vaccine, and it has already arrived in Nepal.
The Covishield vaccine is produced and developed in India with the partnership of Astrazeneca/Oxford.
