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Nepal’s Covid-19 death toll advances to 1,689 with 15 more fatalities

Nepal’s Covid-19 death toll advances to 1,689 with 15 more fatalities

By THT Online

FILE - A health worker performs a rapid test on a girl who travelled from abroad, at Basantapur Durbar Square, in Kathmandu, on the 26th day of lockdown, on Saturday, April 18, 2020. Photo: Skanda Gautam/THT

KATHMANDU: Fifteen more fatalities were reported in the last 24 hours with which Nepal’s Covid-19 death-tally has advanced to 1,689. Meanwhile, 899 fresh coronavirus cases as reported today took the nationwide Covid-19 case count to 247,593. More than 69 million people have been reported infected by the novel coronavirus globally while 1.5 million lives have been lost to the pandemic. On Friday, eleven individuals diagnosed with Covid-19 had succumbed to the disease.