With 03 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Thursday the nation's novel coronavirus tally has reached 1000,945

According to Ministry of Health and Population, in 219 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 03 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its regular update.

Likewise, in 511 antigen tests performed in the last 24 hours 01cases are detected positive.

Currently, there are 15 active cases of COVID-19 across the nation while 13 patients are placed in home isolation and 2 are admitted to hospitals.

Meanwhile,04 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 988,911 cases of recovery, and the recovery rate is at 98.8 per cent.

The MoHP on Thursday reported no COVID-19 related fatalities to the nation's COVID-19 death toll, which has now reached 12,019.