Country registers 438 new cases of COVID; contagion claims two

Kathmandu: A total of 438 people tested positive for the coronavirus in the country on Saturday.

According to a regular bulletin issued by the Ministry of Health and Population, 438 people were diagnosed with COVID-19 among 3,699 tested. With the addition, number of active cases across the country has reached 4,369.

In the last 24 hours of the reporting, 277 infected have recovered from the coronavirus.

Likewise, two infected have lost their lives to COVID. So far 11,966 people have died of COVID-19 in the country.

Kathmandu district alone has over 5,00 infected cases while Lalitpur and Morang have over 2,00 active cases of coronavirus.

As informed, 58,559 people have received anti-COVID vaccines in the last 24 hours.