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Nepal’s Covid-19 death toll advances to 1,743 with 13 more fatalities

Nepal’s Covid-19 death toll advances to 1,743 with 13 more fatalities

By THT Online

Nepalese Army wearing protective clothing are seen sanitizing themselves after bringing the body of a 32-year-old man from Dhading district,who died after being infected with the coronavirus at Hams Hospital, at Pashupathinath cremation site in Kathmandu on Wednesday, August 12, 2020. Photo: Skanda Gautam/THT

KATHMANDU: Thirteen more fatalities were reported in the last 24 hours with which Nepal’s Covid-19 death-tally has advanced to 1,743. Meanwhile, 736 fresh coronavirus cases as reported today took the nationwide Covid-19 case count to 250,916. More than 73 million people have been reported infected by the novel coronavirus globally while 1.6 million lives have been lost to the pandemic. On Tuesday, 14 individuals diagnosed with Covid-19 had succumbed to the disease.