World News | Nepal Reports 1,056 New Cases of Coronavirus: Health Ministry

Kathmandu, Dec 9 (PTI) Nepal has reported 1,056 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of infections in the Himalayan nation to 244,433, the health ministry said on Wednesday.

The Ministry of Health and Population also said that 14 more deaths were reported due to the contagious disease.

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“The total number of coronavirus cases in Nepal has touched 244,433 while the total number of deaths have reached 1,651,” the health ministry said in a statement.

As Nepal has achieved 93 per cent corona recovery rate, the country's corona active cases has dropped to 12,245.

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Nepal has till now conducted 1.8 million PCR tests through various laboratories across the country.

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