By TRN Online, Kathmandu, Dec. 13: The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) on Sunday confirmed 830 new cases of COVID-19, taking the national tally to 248,423.

“In 5,181 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, a total of 830 persons were found with the novel coronavirus infection,” informed Dr. Jageshwor Gautam, spokesperson of the MoHP in the press briefing.

Currently, there are 10,994 active cases of COVID-19 of which, 4,762 patients are in institutional isolation while 6,232 are in home isolation. Likewise, 516 persons, mostly those who had returned from abroad are stationed in quarantine. 

Of the patients in institutional isolation, some 294 are admitted to the ICU while 52 are receiving treatment with ventilator facility.

Meanwhile, a total of 1,500 persons either staying in home isolation or receiving treatment in various health facilities recovered from the infection in the last 24 hours. The total number of COVID-19 recoveries in Nepal has spiked to 235,731 and the recovery rate is at 94.9 per cent.

Moreover, nine people succumbed to the infection in the last 24 hours, taking the COVID-19 death toll to 1,698.