With 42 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Wednesday the nation's novel coronavirus tally has reached 1000,275

According to Ministry of Health and Population, in 819 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 42 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its regular update.

Likewise, in 964 antigen tests performed in the last 24 hours 6 cases are detected positive.

Currently, there are 728 active cases of COVID-19 across the nation while 720 patients are placed in home isolation and 8 are admitted to hospitals.

Meanwhile,50 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 987,529 cases of recovery, and the recovery rate is at 98.7 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.