KATHMANDU: Eighteen more fatalities were reported in the last 24 hours with which Nepal’s Covid-19 death-tally has advanced to 1,716. Meanwhile, 821 fresh coronavirus cases as reported today took the nationwide Covid-19 case count to 249,244. More than 72 million people have been reported infected by the novel coronavirus globally while 1.6 million lives have been lost to the pandemic. On Sunday, nine individuals diagnosed with Covid-19 had succumbed to the disease.