By TRN Online, Kathmandu, Jan. 4: With 403 new cases of the novel coronavirus confirmed on Monday, the national COVID-19 tally has reached 262,262.

"In 4,401 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, 403 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2," informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its daily update.

At the same time, 185 infections including 82 females and 185 males were recorded in the Kathmandu Valley.

Currently, there are 5,287 active cases of COVID-19 across the nation of 1,774 patients are in home isolation. Some 209 COVID-19 patients are admitted to the ICU and 34 are receiving treatment with ventilator facility

A total of 342 persons, mostly those who had returned from abroad, are placed in quarantine.

Meanwhile, 594 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 255,088 cases of recoveries and the recovery rate stands at 97.3 percent.

A total of seven people succumbed to the deadly virus in the last 24 hours and with this, the national COVID-19 related death tally has reached 1,885.