By TRN Online, Kathmandu, Dec. 20: With 588 new cases of novel coronavirus confirmed on Sunday, the national COVID-19 tally has surged to 253,772.
"In 4,620 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, as many as 588 persons were found to have been infected with SARS-CoV-2," informed Dr. Jageshwor Gautam, spokesperson of the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in the daily press briefing.
Currently, there are 8,320 active cases of COVID-19 of which, 265 patients are admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and 51 are receiving treatment with ventilator facility.
Meanwhile, 1,097 COVID-19 patients receiving treatment institutional isolation or staying in home isolation recovered from the infection in the last 24 hours. Nepal has now recorded 243,664 cases of recoveries.
A total of 11 people succumbed to the deadly virus in the last 24 hours and with this, the national COVID-19 related death tally has reached 1,788.
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