With 318 new cases of the novel coronavirus confirmed on Wednesday Nepal's COVID-19 tally has spiked to 268310.

Professor Dr. Jageshwor Gautam, spokesperson of Ministry of Health and Population said that in 5012 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done across the nation in the last 24 hours, as many as 318 were found with the novel coronavirus infection.

He said that 383 persons got over COVID-19 in the last 24 hours and the total recovery is 264642 the recovery rate is 97.89 percent.

As many as 6 people have succumbed to the deadly virus in the last 24 hours and 33693 are active cases in the country.