With 430 new cases of the novel coronavirus confirmed on Monday Nepal's COVID-19 tally has spiked to 262262.

Professor Dr. Jageshwor Gautam, spokesperson of Ministry of Health and Population said that in 4401 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done across the nation in the last 24 hours, as many as 403 were found with the novel coronavirus infection.

He said that 594 persons got over COVID-19 in the last 24 hours and total recovery is 262262 the recovery rate is 97.1 percent.

As many as 7 people have succumbed to the deadly virus in the last 24 hours and with this, the national COVID-19 related death tally has reached 1885. There are 4401 are active cases in the country.