Nine new cases, 25 recoveries in 24 hours

Kathmandu, April 22: With nine new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Friday, the nation's novel coronavirus tally has reached 978,714.

In 2,133 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of nine people were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its regular update.

Likewise, the virus infection was detected in nine people in 1,518 antigen tests performed in the last 24 hours.

Currently, there are 282 active cases of COVID-19 across the nation of which, three are admitted to various institutional isolation while 279 patients are placed in home isolation.

Of the active patients, no people are admitted to the ICU and no one is under treatment with the ventilator facility.

Meanwhile, 25 COVID-19 patients receiving treatment in institutional isolation or staying in home isolation recovered from the infection in the last 24 hours. Nepal has now recorded 966,481 cases of recovery, and the recovery rate is at 98.8 per cent.

The MoHP on Friday added zero COVID-19 related fatalities to the nation's COVID-19 death toll, which has now reached 11,951.