By Ajita Rijal
Kathmandu, Dec. 5: Nepal’s COVID-19 death toll jumped to 1,567 on Friday with 16 new deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP).
Of the total COVID-19 deaths, 604 are from the Kathmandu Valley’s three districts, with 393 cases in Kathmandu, 117 in Lalitpur and 94 in Bhaktapur.
The Valley accounts for over 38.5 per cent of the nation’s total COVID -19 deaths, according to the latest MoHP data.
In terms of the total deaths, recovered and caseload percentage, the case fatality rate now stands at 0.7 per cent while the recovery rate is 92.9 per cent and active cases are 6.4 per cent, according to the MoHP.
The country recorded 1,272 new cases on Friday, taking the official COVID-19 tally to 238,861. Of the new cases, 561 are from Kathmandu Valley.
Of the 8,031 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests conducted in the last 24 hours, 1,272 persons, with 484 females and 788 males, were found with the COVID-19 infection in the last 24 hours, according to the daily update report of the MoHP.
On the other hand, 1,575 COVID-19 patients have recovered from the disease in the past 24 hours, according to the same report. With this, Nepal’s total recovery tally has now reached 221,847.
This indicates a slightly higher number of recoveries than the daily caseload reported over the past days this week.
On Thursday, there were 2,111 recoveries and 1,343 new cases while on Wednesday, there were 1,567 recoveries and 1,490 new infections.
Currently, there are 15,447 active cases of COVID-19 and 537 persons, mostly those who had returned from abroad, are placed in quarantine.
Also, the number of districts with over 500 active has reached six, four of the in Bagmati Province, including the three districts of the valley. Two districts, Manang and Dolpa have no active or zero cases.
Global COVID-19 death toll reaches 1,494,668 
Globally, as of December 4 morning, there have been 64,350,473 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 1,494,668 deaths’ according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) website.