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Eight Covid-19 fatalities recorded today, death-toll advances to 765

Eight Covid-19 fatalities recorded today, death-toll advances to 765

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: Eight more coronavirus-related fatalities were reported in the last 24 hours in the country. The nationwide Covid-19 death-toll has, as such, advanced to 765. On Monday, Ministry of Health reported 18 fatalities from coronavirus infection following which the nationwide Covid-19 death-toll had reached 757. Since the beginning of Covid-19 pandemic, over 1.1 million people have lost their lives to the disease, with the global fatality rate hovering around 2.8 percent of the total cases.