With 19 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Wednesday the nation's novel coronavirus tally has reached 979,297.

According to Ministry of Health and Population, in 2856 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 19 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its regular update.

Likewise, in 1049 antigen tests performed in the last 24 hours 6 cases are detected positive.

Currently, there are 97 active cases of COVID-19 across the nation while 93 patients are placed in home isolation and one is admitted to ICU and one is in Hospital.

Meanwhile, 15 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 967248 cases of recovery, and the recovery rate is at 98.8 per cent.

The MoHP on Wednesday reported no COVID-19 related fatalities to the nation's COVID-19 death toll, which has now reached 11,952.