COVID-19 infection rate of Nepal up by 228 percent than last week
KATHMANDU, April 28: Nepal recorded as many as 4,897 new cases and 17 deaths related to COVID-19 in the past 24 hours.
According to the latest data from the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), 4,774 people tested positive through PCR tests and 123 through antigen tests.
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As many as 13,879 people underwent PCR tests and 955 antigen tests across the country in the past 24 hours.
Likewise, the number of COVID-19 patients in the country has risen by 12,580 since last Monday.
There are currently 30,209 active cases of COVID-19 across the country.
Similarly, 317 COVID-19 patients are in ICU and 98 are on ventilators across the country.
According to the MoHP, the COVID-19 infection rate has risen by 228 percent in just a week which is far higher than the infection rate of India.
Also, 773 people who had earlier tested positive for COVID-19 recovered in the past 24 hours. Nepal’s COVID-19 recovery rate as of Wednesday afternoon is 89.3 percent.
