By Aasha Shah, Kathmandu, June 17: Following the decline in COVID-19 cases, the beds in the Kathmandu Valley's hospitals have started being vacant.

A month earlier, when the active cases of COVID-19 had spiked to over 100,000, all the hospitals across the nation were packed with virus-infected patients.

According to the data published by the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), the general-High Dependency Units (HDUs), Intensive Care Units (ICUs), and ventilator beds have started becoming unoccupied in various government and private hospitals in Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, and Lalitpur.

The flow of virus-infected patients has declined in the Armed Police Force (APF) Hospital, Birendra Sainik Hospital, Bir Hospital, and Nepal Police Hospital said the Health Ministry.

According to the MoHP's COVID-19 press briefing held on Wednesday, 179 general-HDU beds, 161 ICUs, and 101 ventilators have become vacant in these hospitals.

Similarly, the daily COVID-19 update of the MoHP reveals that the number of recoveries has outnumbered the new cases being identified daily. Similarly, the death rate is also declining gradually. As of today, the nation's COVID-19 recovery rate is 88.49 per cent, the infection rate is at 10.12 per cent while the death rate is 1.39 per cent.