Nepal

29 more fatalities registered today; Covid-19 death-toll crosses 1,500

29 more fatalities registered today; Covid-19 death-toll crosses 1,500

By THT Online

Health workers are seen attending to people waiting to get their PCR tests done, during the government-imposed lockdown, amid concerns over the rapid spread of COVID-19, at Teku hospital, in Kathmandu, on Tuesday, August 25, 2020. Photo: Skanda Gautam/THT

KATHMANDU: Twenty-nine more fatalities were reported in the last 24 hours with which Nepal’s Covid-19 death-tally has now advanced to 1,508. Meanwhile, 1,474 fresh coronavirus cases as reported today took the nationwide Covid-19 case count to 233,452. Over 1.4 million deaths from the disease have been reported worldwide while the global case tally is recorded over 63 million.

On Sunday, twenty-five individuals diagnosed with Covid-19 had succumbed to the disease.