By TRN Online, Kathmandu, Jan. 22: With 302 new cases of the novel coronavirus confirmed on Friday, the national COVID-19 tally has reached 268,948.

"In 3,545 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, 302 persons, 133 females and 169 males were found infected with SARS-CoV-2," informed Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its daily update.

Of the new infections, 112 cases including 53 females and 59 males were recorded in the Kathmandu Valley.

Currently, there are 3,614 active cases of COVID-19 across the nation of which, 879 are receiving treatment in various institutional isolation and the remaining are placed in home isolation. Also, 158 persons, mostly those who had returned from abroad, are placed in quarantine.

Likewise, 154 COVID-19 patients are admitted to the ICU and 31 are receiving treatment with the ventilator facility.

Meanwhile, 480 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 263,348 cases of recoveries and the recovery rate is at 97.9 per cent.

Moreover, seven persons succumbed to COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, taking Nepal's COVID-19 death toll to 1,986.