KATHMANDU: The Kathmandu valley on Thursday logged 247 additional cases of coronavirus cases.

Of the total infected, 103 were women and 144 men. The capital alone witnessed 180 of the 247 infections while Lalitpur and Bhaktapur reported 43 and 24 infections, respectively.

At present, there are 2943 active Covid-19 cases in Kathmandu while the number of same in Lalitpur is 385 and 183 in Bhaktapur.

Meanwhile, the total number of people that have recovered from the disease in Kathmandu is 93,777; 14,730 in Lalitpur and 8,605 in Bhaktapur.

As many as 470 people have died from Covid-19 in Kathmandu, 146 in Lalitpur and 104 in Bhaktapur.

Kathmandu is the only district with 500+ active cases in the country. On the contrary, Mahottari, Mugu, Rukum West are the three districts with zero live infections as of today.

On Thursday, 534 new cases of the coronavirus infection had surfaced in the country following which the nationwide Covid-19 tally has reached 260,593. Nine deaths reported in the last 24 hours took the death toll to 1856.