Kathmandu, October 27
New Case Alert: 672 new COVID-19 cases are positive whereas 490 people have achieved recovery and whereas 8 deaths have been reported in last 24 hours.
The Ministry of Health and Population has informed that Nepal’s Covid-19 tally has reached 905,185 as of Wednesday afternoon.
In this period, 7,167 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which returned 582 returned positive. Likewise, 2,328 people underwent antigen tests for the virus, of which an additional 90 tested positive.
Of total tests, 8.12 per cent of the PCR and 3.86 per cent of antigen samples returned positive, keeping the overall per-day positivity rate at 7.07 per cent.
As of today, there are 10,375 active cases across the country. Of them, 825 are hospitalized, 254 in intensive care units and 86 on ventilators.
Of the total cases so far, 789,120 people have achieved recovery. Likewise, 11,380 died, according to the ministry. The country’s recovery rate is 97.3 per cent and the death rate is 1.4 per cent.
Meanwhile, 77,207 people were vaccinated today.
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