Of the 522 new cases recorded in the past 24 hours, 232 are from the Kathmandu Valley
KATHMANDU, Jan 5: The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) recorded 522 new cases of COVID-19 across the country in the past 24 hours.
Of the total cases detected, 232 were recorded from the Kathmandu Valley.
Meanwhile, the number of people dying of COVID-19 in Nepal has reached 1,893 with seven more people dying of the disease on Tuesday.
According to the health ministry, 587 COVID-19 patients recovered in the past one day, taking the nation's COVID-19 recovery tally to 255,666.
The country has tested 1,957,454 people for the COVID-19 so far.