53 new cases, 20 recoveries in 24 hours

By TRN Online, Kathmandu, July 3: With 53 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Sunday, the nation's novel coronavirus tally has reached 979,801.

In 1,162 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 39 people were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its regular update on Saturday.

Likewise, the virus infection was detected in 14 people in 958 antigen tests performed in the last 24 hours.

Currently, there are 333 active cases of COVID-19 across the nation of which, four are admitted to institutional isolation while 329 patients are placed in home isolation. Out of which four are in ICU and one is on ventilator support. 

Meanwhile, 20 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 967,516 cases of recovery, and the recovery rate is at 98.7 per cent.

No fatality related to COVID-19 was recorded in the last 24 hours, according to the MoHP. So far, Nepals' COVID-19 death toll has reached 11,952.