By A Staff Reporter
Kathmandu, Aug. 27: The number of active cases of COVID-19 across the nation reached 38,384 on Thursday. The Kathmandu Valley alone has around one third of the total active cases.
According to the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), there were 6,587 active cases in Kathmandu, 1,478 in Bhaktapur and 2,220 in Lalitpur. With this, the total active cases in the Valley reached 10,285 as of Thursday.
Likewise, the MoHP recorded 26 deaths related to COVID-19 on Thursday. With this, the nation’s COVID-19 death toll has reached 10,638.

The MoHP confirmed 2,433 new cases of COVID-19. Of them, 2,052 were detected through PCR tests and 381 from antigen tests. With this, the nationwide COVID-19 tally through PCR method reached 754,915 and that through antigen reached 81,968. Among the infected people, 304,307 were female and 450,608 were male.

Of the total 14,374 tests conducted in the last 24 hours, 9,702 were Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) and 4,672 antigen tests.
According to the MoHP, 705,893 infected people have recovered from the disease, with 1,929 of them recovered in the past 24 hours.

Of the new infections, 855 were recorded in the Kathmandu Valley including 66 in Bhaktpur, 106 in Lalitpur and 561 in Kathmandu. Also, Kaski district recorded 252 new cases of COVID-19 while the number was 153 each in Jhapa and Chitwan in the last 24 hours.

Meanwhile, the government of India today handed over the Oxygen Plant to be installed at B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, to the Ministry of Health and Population.
According to the MoHP, 4,986,893 people received their first dose of the vaccine against COVID-19 and 3,949,523 received their full dose as of Thursday. In total, 70,026 people were vaccinated in the last 24 hours. These days, the government is administering AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson and Vero Cell vaccines.