Nepal

23 more fatalities registered today, Covid-19 death-toll advances to 1,435

23 more fatalities registered today, Covid-19 death-toll advances to 1,435

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: Twenty-three more fatalities were reported in the last 24 hours with which Nepal’s Covid-19 death-tally has now advanced to 1,435. Meanwhile, 1,703 fresh coronavirus cases as reported today took the nationwide coronavirus case count to 229,343. Over 1.4 million deaths from the disease have been reported worldwide while the global case tally is recorded over 60 million. On Thursday, 23 individuals diagnosed with Covid-19 had succumbed to the disease.