With 8 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Saturday, the nation's novel coronavirus tally has reached 978,127.

According to Ministry of Health and Population, In 1993 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 8 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its regular update.

Likewise, the virus infection was detected in 9 people in 2550 antigen tests performed in the last 24 hours.

Currently, there are 3595 active cases of COVID-19 across the nation of which, 60 are admitted to various institutional isolation while 3535 patients are placed in home isolation.

Of the active patients, 27 are admitted to the ICU and six are under treatment with the ventilator facility.

Meanwhile, 409 COVID-19 patients receiving treatment in institutional isolation or staying in home isolation recovered from the infection in the last 24 hours. Nepal has now recorded 962582 cases of recovery, and the recovery rate is at 98.4 per cent.

The MoHP on Saturday added zero COVID-19 related fatalities to the nation's COVID-19 death toll, which has now reached 11,950.