The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) confirmed 31 new cases of COVID-19 in the Kathmandu Valley.

In 2715 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done across the nation in the last 24 hours, as many as 31 persons were found with the novel coronavirus infection in the Valley, informed the MoHP in its update.

Of 31 cases, Kathmandu districts records 24 cases followed by Lalitpur 6 and Bhaktapur 1.

With 59 new cases of the novel coronavirus confirmed on Tuesday Nepal’s COVID-19 tally has spiked to 274869