Nepal logged 2, 526 new Covid-19 cases and 16 deaths on Friday.
With this, the country's active caseload mounted to 1,097,589. Similarly, the death toll has climbed to 11,794.
According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 6,655 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 1,602 returned positive. Likewise, 4,418 people underwent antigen tests, of which 924 tested positive.
The Ministry said that 8,425 infected people recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours.
As of today, there are 56,457 active cases in the country.
The Ministry said that 55,090 people are staying in home isolation while 1, 367 are in institutionalized isolation.
Among them, 243 are in Intensive Care Unit while 51 are on ventilators.
Meanwhile, the Kathmandu Valley reported 1772 new cases today.
According to the Ministry, 1,361 cases are reported in Kathmandu, 271 in Lalitpur and 90 in Bhaktapur.
