Nepal

Three more Covid related fatalities take country's death-tally to 2020

By THT Online

Army personnel along with RNA-16 volunteers transport the mortal remains of a Covid-19 victim for final rites from his house in Bhaktapur where he passed away while in isolation. Photo: Skanda Gautam/THT

KATHMANDU: The nationwide coronavirus death-toll has advanced to 2,020 with three more fatalities reported on Wednesday.

Globally, 2.16 million people have lost their lives to Covid-19 while over 100 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus.

Today, 283 new infections have surfaced after which Nepal's total cases of infection have reached 270,375.

On Tuesday, six fatalities were reported which took the country-wide death toll to 2,017.