Covid-19 update: Nepal records 679 fresh cases and seven fatalities in the last 24 hours

The number of active cases in the country has reached 16,804.

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Kathmandu: Nepal reports 679 new Covid-19 cases and seven fatalities in the last 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health and Population.

The new cases were detected out of 7,070 RT-PCR and 3,850 antigen tests.

A total of 1,405 people recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours. With this, the total number of active cases in the country has reached 16,804.

As many as seven people succumbed to the virus in the same period. The country’s death toll stands at 11,164, the Health Ministry said in its daily update.