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Nepal’s Covid-19 death toll advances to 1,749 with six more fatalities

Nepal’s Covid-19 death toll advances to 1,749 with six 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: Six more fatalities were reported in the last 24 hours with which Nepal’s Covid-19 death-tally has advanced to 1,749. Meanwhile, 776 fresh coronavirus cases as reported today took the nationwide Covid-19 case count to 251,692. More than 74 million people have been reported infected by the novel coronavirus globally while 1.65 million lives have been lost to the pandemic. On Wednesday, 13 individuals diagnosed with Covid-19 had succumbed to the disease.