Kathmandu, October 22
New Case Alert: 708 new COVID-19 cases are positive whereas 932 people have achieved recovery and whereas 11 deaths have been reported. in last 24 hours.
The Ministry of Health and Population has informed that Nepal’s Covid-19 tally has reached 902,001 as of Friday afternoon.
In this period, 7,253 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which returned 574 returned positive. Likewise, 134 tested positive among 2,123 people endure antigen tests for the COVID -19.
Among total tests, 7.91 per cent of the PCR and 6.31 per cent of antigen samples returned positive, keeping the overall per-day positivity rate at 7.55 per cent.
As of today, there are 10,946 active cases across the country. Of them, 830 are hospitalized, 279 in intensive care units and 91 on ventilators.
Of the total cases so far, 785,813 people have achieved recovery Likewise, 11,337 died, according to the ministry. The country’s recovery rate is 97.1 per cent and the death rate is 1.4 per cent.
Meanwhile, 58,853 people were vaccinated today.
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