Nepal's Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) Saturday reported 8,287 new cases of coronavirus infection, a drop from the highest daily record of Friday by 8.15 per cent. With this, the COVID count has reached 385,890. Additionally, 131 persons have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in the antigen test.
The daily cases went up increasing from 768 cases on April 17 and reached the highest in numbers with 8,287 cases on Friday.
Likewise, the Health Ministry has recorded 53 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. The highest 58 deaths in one day were reported on May 5. As of Saturday, the nationwide death toll from COVID-19 has reached 3,632. Presently, there are 83,493 active cases in Nepal.
Similarly, the three districts of Kathmandu valley have also witnessed a drop from Friday's 4,106 cases to 3,113 which makes about 37.56 per cent of the total new cases excluding those who tested positive in the antigen test. Kathmandu district has registered 2,270 cases, Lalitpur 462 cases and Bhaktapur registered 381 cases, as per the data released by the MoHP.
As many as 3,370 patients of COVID-19 have recovered in the past 24 hours. As of Saturday, a total of 298,765 people have recovered from the viral disease, the data released by the MoHP showed. Today the recovery rate has dropped from yesterday's 78.2 per cent to 77.4 per cent.
Earlier, the MoHP on Friday had reported 9,023 COVID cases, the highest daily numbers, that had taken the nationwide tally to 377,603.
As of Saturday, a total of 2,615,720 persons have undergone the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test. Presently, there are 83,493 persons staying in isolation while 398 others have been placed in quarantine in the country.
More than 156.93 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus worldwide while at least 3,410,229 people have died from COVID-19, following an outbreak that started in Wuhan, China, in early December, a Reuters tally showed as of 3:46 pm, on Saturday, May 8, 2021.
The World Health Organisation referred to it as a pandemic on March 11, 2020.
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