The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) confirmed 697 new cases of COVID-19 in the Kathmandu Valley.
The Ministry of Health and Population said in 8715 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 897 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2.
Of 697 cases, Kathmandu districts records 490 cases, 128 in Lalitpur and 69 in Bhaktapur.
With 1918 new cases of the novel coronavirus confirmed on Wednesday Nepal’s COVID-19 tally has spiked 672871 .