Currently, Kathmandu is the only district with more than 500 active cases.
Kathmandu, September 21
Health authorities diagnosed a total of 39 COVID patients in the last 24 hours, including 19 cases in Kathmandu valley.
With this, Nepal's COVID caseload has reached 999,394, including 985,895 recoveries, 1,483 active cases, and 12,016 deaths at a case fatality rate of 1.2 per cent.
Of those testing positive for the contagion in Kathmandu valley, 14 cases were reported in Kathmandu, and one in Lalitpur. Of the other districts, five cases were reported in Chitwan and three in Morang. Similarly three districts reported two cases and one case each was reported in 11 districts.
According to the Ministry for Health and Population, 42 people tested positive for antigens today. They have undergone RT-PCR test to confirm whether they are suffering from coronavirus disease.
As per the health ministry, 175 people emerged from isolation today after recovering from COVID. So far, 98.6 per cent COVID patients have recovered in Nepal.
The ministry said that of all the active cases, 61 patients are receiving treatment in institutional isolations 19 are in intensive care, and none are on ventilator support. The remaining 1,558 patients are in home isolation.
The number of active COVID cases in Kathmandu valley is 812 - 570 in Kathmandu, 219 in Lalitpur and 23 in Bhaktapur. Inside the valley, 3,516 COVID patients have lost their lives to the contagion, including 2,312 deaths in Kathmandu, 453 in Bhaktapur, and 751 in Lalitpur.
Currently, Kathmandu is the only district with more than 500 active cases. Lalitpur has between 200 and 500 active cases. Thirteen districts - Taplejung, Terhathum, Sankhuwasabha, Ramechhap, Manang, Mustang, Syangja, Baglung, Arghakhachi, Dolpa, Humla, Kalikot, Rukum West, and Darchula - have no active COVID case.
As many as 108 of the deceased were children or teenagers, 381 were people in the age group 20-29, 968 in the age group 30-39, 1,669 in the age group 40-49, 2,310 in the age group 50-59, 2,518 in the age group 60-69, 2,400 in the age group 70-79, and 1,649 were aged 80 or above. The ministry has no data on the age of 13 COVID victims.
The government claims that more than 99 per cent of the targeted population above 12 years of age have received the first dose of the anti-COVID vaccine.
