Nepal recorded 1, 714 new Covid-19 cases and nine deaths on Saturday.
With this, the country's active caseload mounted to 1,099,303. Similarly, the death toll has climbed to 11,803.
According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 5,225 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 1,103 returned positive. Likewise, 3,288 people underwent antigen tests, of which 611 tested positive.
The Ministry said that 4,771 infected people recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours.
As of today, there are 52,780 active cases in the country.
The Ministry said that 51,434 people are staying in home isolation while 1, 346 are in institutionalized isolation.
Of them, 251 are in Intensive Care Unit and 41 are on ventilators.
Meanwhile, the Kathmandu Valley reported 463 new cases today.
According to the Ministry, 316 cases are reported in Kathmandu, 104 in Lalitpur and 43 in Bhaktapur.
