KATHMANDU: Sixteen more fatalities were reported in the last 24 hours with which Nepal’s Covid-19 death-tally has advanced to 1,765.

Meanwhile, 782 fresh coronavirus cases as reported today took the nationwide Covid-19 case count to 252,474.

More than 75 million people have been reported infected by the novel coronavirus globally while 1.66 million lives have been lost to the pandemic.

On Thursday, six individuals diagnosed with Covid-19 had succumbed to the disease.