Recovery rate of COVID-19 increased to 80.2 per cent on Tuesday. With 6,896 recoveries recorded in the last 24 hours, recovery tally has reached 454,344.
According to the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), among 17,147 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, 5,285 persons were found infected with COVID-19, informed the MoHP in its regular press briefing today.
Likewise, out of 3,018 antigen tests done in the last 24 hours, virus infection was detected in 800 people, according to the MoHP.
The MoHP also added 68 COVID-19 related fatalities in the last 24 hours. With this, the nation’s COVID-19 death toll has climbed to 7,454 so far. The overall national infection tally has reached 566,587 as of Tuesday.
According to the latest update, 7,085 patients are admitted to various institutional isolation centres and 97,704 are placed in home isolation. Of the active patients, 1,491are admitted to the ICUs, and 404 are undergoing treatment with ventilator support.
The Kathmandu Valley recorded 1,558 new infections in the past 24 hours. Of them, 1,060 cases were confirmed in Kathmandu, 283 in Lalitpur and 215 in Bhaktapur.
In the past 24 hours, 873 new infections were recorded in Province 1; 482 in Province 2; 2,524 in Bagmati; 500 in Gandaki; 516 in Lumbini; 219 in Karnali and 171in Sudurpaschim.
Meanwhile, according to our Butwal Correspondent, free testing of COVID-10 has started at every settlement in Butwal. In two days, 62 samples were tested, of which 14 were found to be positive for the virus.
According to Butwal Sub-Metropolitan City, the antigen test is being conducted at Motipur health post and other office premises.
Mayor of Butwal Sub-Metropolitan City Shivaraj Subedi said that the testing was being conducted to break the chain of infection at the community level. Subedi also said that the municipality was conducting awareness programme, urging people to follow all the health protocols.
The local representatives are working to develop the self-confidence of the infected people by visiting them with oxygen cylinders, Aayurvedic medicines and other required vitamins, he said.
Source : THE RISING NEPAL,
