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COVID-19 update: 194 new infections, 307 recoveries in 24 hours



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Kathmandu, Dec. 11: With 194 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Saturday, the nation's novel coronavirus tally has reached 823,980.

In 5,672 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 194 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its regular update.

Likewise, the virus infection was detected in 42 people in 3,506 antigen tests performed in the last 24 hours.

Currently, there are 5,883 active cases of COVID-19 across the nation of which, 277 are admitted to various institutional isolation while 5,606 patients are placed in home isolation.

Of the active patients, 112 are admitted to the ICU and 27 are under treatment with the ventilator facility.

Meanwhile, 307 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 806,544 cases of recovery, and the recovery rate is at 97.9 per cent.

The MoHP on Saturday added one COVID-19 related fatalities to the nation's COVID-19 death toll, which has now reached 11,553.