288 new cases of COVID-19 identified today, total infected has reached 2,099
Kathmandu, June 2 : Two hundred and eighty eight new cases of COVID-19 were identified today itself.
Spokesperson at the Ministry of Health and Population, Dr Bikas Devkota in a regular press briefing at the ministry shared that 270 male and 18 female tested COVID-19 positive today.
This is the highest number of infections in a single day so far in the country. With this, the number of total infected has reached 2,099. Of them, 1,949 are male while 150 are female.
“Samples of 74 individuals from Rautahat, 27 from Surkhet, 21 from Sarlahi, 18 from Salyan, 17 each from Dang, Banke and Siraha, 16 from Kapilvastu, 10 each from Achham, Kailali and Rupandehi, nine from Dailekh, eight from Kanchanpur, six from Dhanusa, five each in Syangja and Parbat, four from Kathmandu, three from Bardiya, two each from Nuwakot and Mahottari, and one each from Saptari, Bara, Pyuthan, Bhaktapur, Dhading, Nawalparasi (East) and Nawalparasi (West) tested positive for the virus in various laboratories across the country, ”said Dr Bikash Devkota, spokesperson for the Health Ministry, at a regular press briefing on Tuesday.
According to the Health Ministry, the coronavirus infection has so far been reported in 61 districts. There have been eight fatalities so far due to Covid-19. Kapilvastu has so far reported 337 cases, the highest for a district, followed by Rautahat with 312 cases while Banke has reported 213 cases.
Similarly, 131 cases have been reported in Sarlahi; Jhapa has recorded 113, Parsa has recorded 107 cases and Dailekh has so far reported 102 cases.
“So far, 75,343 polymerase chain reaction tests and 116,345 rapid diagnostic tests have been carried out across the country,” said Devkota.
