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Nepal’s Covid-19 death toll advances to 1,730 with 14 more fatalities

Nepal’s Covid-19 death toll advances to 1,730 with 14 more fatalities

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: Fourteen more fatalities were reported in the last 24 hours with which Nepal’s Covid-19 death-tally has advanced to 1,730. Meanwhile, 936 fresh coronavirus cases as reported today took the nationwide Covid-19 case count to 250,180. 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 Monday, eighteen individuals diagnosed with Covid-19 had succumbed to the disease.