Nepal

Seven more fatalities take Nepal's Covid-19 death toll close to 2000 on Friday

Seven more fatalities take Nepal's Covid-19 death toll close to 2000 on Friday

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: Nepal's coronavirus death-toll has advanced to 1,986 with seven more fatalities reported on Friday. Globally, 2.1 million people have lost their lives to Covid-19 while more than 98 million people have been infected by the disease. Today, 302 new coronavirus cases surfaced after which Nepal’s total cases of coronavirus infection have reached 268,948.

On Thursday, four fatalities were reported after which the country-wide death toll had reached 1,979.