KATHMANDU: As many as 388 fresh infections surfaced in Kathmandu valley in the last 24 hours. As per the Health Ministrys data, 350 cases were reported in Kathmandu district alone on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, 29 cases were detected in Lalitpur. Bhaktapur witnessed significantly less number of cases today as compared to the last few days wherein the district continuously logged infections in double digits.

Nine cases were registered in the district, today. On Tuesday 481 fresh cases of coronavirus infection- record-high in terms of number of cases reported on a single day were reported. :Nepals Covid-19 tally goes up to 41,649 with 1120 new cases on Wednesday Kathmandu valley currently has over 5000 active cases of coronavirus infection. Kathmandu still remains the district with most number of live Covid-19 cases in the country.

Lalitpur and Kathmandu along with Morang, Sunsari Dhanusha, Parsa, Bara, Mahottari, Rautahat, Sarlahi, Chitwan and Rupandehi have over 500 active cases. Likewise, seven districts mdash; Dolpa, Mugu, Humla, Solukhumbu, Mustang, Bhojpur and Tapelejung mdash; have zero active infections. Owing to a steady increase in number of reported cases in the valley, the district administration authorities of the three districts have clamped a prohibitory order in the valley, the deadline for which expires today at midnight. An announcement regarding the extension in term or change in modality is expected by the evening. Likewise, twelve deaths were registered today with which the countrys Covid-19 death-toll has topped 250. The post 388 cases reported in Kathmandu valley on Wednesday appeared first on The Himalayan Times.