The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) confirmed 1558 new cases of COVID-19 in the Kathmandu Valley.

The Ministry of Health and Population said in 17147 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 1558 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2.

Of 1558 cases, Kathmandu districts records 1060 cases in Kathmandu and 283 in Lalitpur and 215 in Bhaktapur.

With 5285 new cases of the novel coronavirus confirmed on Tuesday Nepal’s COVID-19 tally has spiked to 566587.