Nepal logged 6,827 new Covid-19 cases and 10 deaths on Friday.

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 13,791 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 4,807 returned positive. Likewise, 6,078 people underwent antigen tests, of which 2,020 tested positive.

With this, the country's active caseload reached 1,068,932. Similarly, death toll climbed to 11,697.

According to the Ministry, 5,435 infected people recovered from the disease.

There are 89,941 active cases in the country. Among them, 88,084 are in home isolation, 1,857 are in institutionalized isolation.

As many as 256 are in intensive care units and 45 on ventilators.

Meanwhile, the Kathmandu Valley recorded 2,940 new cases.

Of them, Kathmandu reported 2,153 cases and Lalitpur and Bhaktapur recorded 519 and 268 cases respectively.