KATHMANDU: The nationwide coronavirus death-toll has advanced to 1,969 with four more fatalities reported on Tuesday.

Globally, 2.04 million people have lost their lives to Covid-19 while nearly 96 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus.

Today, 348 new cases surfaced after which Nepal’s total cases of coronavirus infection have reached 267,992.

On Monday, six fatalities were reported which took the country-wide death toll to 1,965.