By A Staff Reporter
Kathmandu, Jan. 17: COVID-19 recovery tally rose to 261,044 on Saturday, with 477 patients recovering from the virus in the last 24 hours.
The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) today confirmed that 477 COVID-19 patients recovered while 240 new infections and six COVID-19 related deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours across the country.
The national recovery rate now stands at 97.75 per cent, according to MoHP.
With today’s new cases, the national COVID-19 caseload has reached 267,056.
Of the 3,819 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests conducted in the last 24 hours across 82 RT-PCR Testing laboratories in the country, 240 persons -- 87 females and 153 males -- were found infected with the COVID-19.
Of today’s new cases, 131 were reported in Kathmandu Valley’s three districts. Of these, 42 are females while 89 are males.
Meanwhile, with six more COVID-19-related fatalities confirmed in the last 24 hours, Nepal’s COVID-19 death toll reached 1,954 today.
Currently, there are 4,058 active cases of COVID-19 and 231 persons are placed in quarantine.
Among the total active cases, 3,235 are in institutional isolation across the seven provinces, 169 patients are being treated in the intensive care units (ICU) of hospitals, and 38 are receiving treatment with ventilator support.
Of those patients in ventilator, the highest -- 20 patients -- are in Bagmati State, followed by nine in Gandaki and six in Lumbini Provinces.
In addition, only one district -- Kathmandu -- has over 500 active cases of infected people while four districts -- Solukhumbu, Kalikot, Mugu, and Rukum (West) -- have zero active cases, as per the latest district-wise data made available by MoHP.
Nepal has so far conducted 2,008,944 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests over the past 12 months, since January last year.
In terms of global scenario and data, worldwide 67,364,784 people have recovered from the virus, and with this the recovery rate is reported to be 71.4 per cent. Likewise, global death toll from COVID-19 has reached 2,018,330, which is 2.1 per cent fatality rate, according to the MoHP report.