Nepal

Eight more Covid related fatalities take country’s death-tally to 1,840

Eight more Covid related fatalities take country’s death-tally to 1,840

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: The nationwide coronavirus death-toll has advanced to 1,840 with eight more fatalities reported on Tuesday. Globally, 1.7 million people have lost their lives to Covid-19 while over 81 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus. Today, 708 new infections surfaced after which Nepal’s total cases of Covid-19 have reached 259,548.

On Monday, seven additional fatalities had been logged which took the country-wide toll to 1,832.