Nepal Covid-19 cases are raising with over 10,000 deaths toll mark

With 3,007, new coronavirus casesin the last 24 hours Nepal’s Covid-19 reached totally 708,079 infections the nationwide. 

According to the Health Ministry, 931 people tested positive in a total of 6538 antigen test. A total of 11,870 PCR tests were performed in the past 24 hours.

Kathmandu valley reported 1,075 new infections in the past 24 hours where 766 cases were confirmed in Kathmandu, 163 in Lalitpur and 146 in Bhaktapur.    

Though, it is a regular system update, the Health Ministry did not mention the toll over the past 24 hours. However, reported that 37 Covid-19 related fatalities, which included the number of deaths managed by Nepal Army on different dates.

Report from the Health Ministry, 663,663 infected people have recovered from the virus so far, 2,012 cases of them in the last 24 hours.

Nepal’s Health Ministry has already made it clear that the Dalta and Dalta Plus variations of the virus have circulated in the country, whose infection rate is higher than other variants of SARS-CoV-2. Those new variants are more dangerous because infected people’s recovery rate is too slow.

As well as, current major concern is number of patients needs hospitalization and increasing rate has grown with times. For this new variants trend could create matters worse as many infected are failing to recover from serious condition. 

Doctors says that the country could already be in the first stage of the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. In this situation, Nepal’s vaccination rate is also dismal. On Saturday’s only 4,442,622 people have received their first doses (14.8%) and 2,359,793 people have been fully vaccinated (7.86%).                 

The country’s rapid rises in new Covid-19 cases indicates that coming days’ situation will be more difficult to handle. Already, country’s intensive care units and ventilator facilities are packed and doctors and health workers are struggling to control the situation.