KATHMANDU, July 20: Nepal on Wednesday recorded 391 new cases of COVID-19.
According to the latest data from the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), 3,981 COVID-19 tests were conducted in the past 24 hours. Of them, 340 Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and 51 antigen tests turned out to be positive for the disease.
With this, Nepal’s active COVID-19 case tally now stands at 2,276 as of Wednesday afternoon.
Likewise, the Kathmandu Valley recorded 216 new cases of COVID-19 on the same day. Of them, 22 were detected in Lalitpur, nine in Bhaktapur and 185 in Kathmandu districts.