With 45 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Wednesday the nation's novel coronavirus tally has reached 999991.

According to Ministry of Health and Population, in 743 Real-Time Poly 45 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its regular update.

Likewise, in 980 antigen tests performed in the last 24 hours six cases are detected positive.

Currently, there are 598 active cases of COVID-19 across the nation while 570 patients are placed in home isolation and 28 are admitted to hospitals.

Meanwhile, 22 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 985375 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 12,018.