KATHMANDU, Dec 15: A total of 936 new cases of COVID-19 have been recorded in the past 24 hours.
With this, total infected number has reached 250,180 till today in the country. According to ministry of Health and Population, the total number of active cases is now 9,881.
Similarly, 1,996 patients have recovered in the past 24 hours taking the total recovery to 238,569.
The country reported 14 more COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours taking death toll to 1,730.
Kathmandu Valley recorded 438 new infections in the past 24 hours. Of them, 310 cases were confirmed in Kathmandu, 86 in Lalitpur and 42 in Bhaktapur.
As of Tuesday, the number of confirmed cases in the Valley has reached 116,551. While Kathmandu has reported 447 Covid-19-related fatalities so far, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur have recorded 137 and 97 deaths respectively.
According to the ministry, 876 individuals from Bagmati Province, 222 from Lumbini Province, 210 from Province 1, 207 from Province 2, 140 from Gandaki Province, 51 from Sudurpaschim Province, and 24 from Karnali Province have died of Covid-19 so far.
As of Tuesday, 1,843,581 PCR tests have been carried out across the country.
Three districts—Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Kaski—have more than 500 active cases. Manang does not have any active case, according to the ministry.
While 321 individuals infected with the virus are being treated in intensive care units across the country, 48 others—26 in Bagmati Province, eight in Gandaki, four each in Lumbini and Karnali, three in Sudurpaschim, two in Province 2 and one in Province 1—are on ventilator support.
