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Nepal's coronavirus fatality toll climbs to 15 on Tuesday

Nepal's coronavirus fatality toll climbs to 15 on Tuesday

By THT Online

This electron microscope image made available and color-enhanced by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Integrated Research Facility in Fort Detrick, Md., shows Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, orange, isolated from a patient. Research released on Thursday, May 28, 2020 shows how dangerous the coronavirus is for current and former cancer patients. Those who developed COVID-19 were much more likely to die within a month than people without cancer who got it, two studies found. Photo: NIAID/National Institutes of Health via AP

KATHMANDU: Nepal has reported an additional coronavirus death on Tuesday, as it's official Covid-19 death toll steps on 15. The deceased is a 68-year-old male of Bharatpur Metropolitan City-11. He was transferred from Narayani Community Hospital where he was undergoing treatment to Bharatpur Hospital after he was diagnosed with COVID-19 on Monday evening. According to Dr Shreeram Tiwari, Medical Superintendent at Bharatpur Hospital, the patient died at 7:05 am today. He had asthma. The Health Ministry, in its confirmation statement, said that the person was a hypertensive and a diabetic too and had developed pneumonia. This is the first Covid-19 death to be recorded in Chitwan. READ ALSO: