The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) confirmed 587 new cases of COVID-19 in the Kathmandu Valley.

The Ministry of Health and Population said in 7058 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 587 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2.

Of 587 cases, Kathmandu districts records 410 cases, 97 in Lalitpur and 80 in Bhaktapur.

With 1639 new cases of the novel coronavirus confirmed on Monday Nepal’s COVID-19 tally has spiked 658,778 .