A total of 9,392 PCR tests were performed in the past 24 hours, according to the Health Ministry.
In its regular situation report, the ministry did not mention the death toll over the past 24 hours. It, however, reported two Covid-19-related fatalities.
The countrywide death toll has now reached 11,559. The number of active cases stands at 5,689.
According to the ministry, 807,516 infected people have recovered from the disease so far; 362 of them in the last 24 hours.
Kathmandu Valley recorded 147 new infections in the past 24 hours. Of these, 109 cases were confirmed in Kathmandu, 30 in Lalitpur and eight in Bhaktapur.
In the past 24 hours, 20 new infections were recorded in Province 1, nine in Province 2, 162 in Bagmati, 18 in Gandaki, 17 in Lumbini, two in Karnali and one in Sudurpaschim.
On Tuesday, 120 individuals infected with the virus were being treated in intensive care units across the country. Another 27—six in Province 1, 18 in Bagmati, one in Gandaki and two in Lumbini —were on ventilator support.
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