Kathmandu —  According to the Ministry of Health and Population Nepal, the new deaths have taken the country’s death toll from the coronavirus to 1,529 as of Tuesday afternoon. A total of 21 COVID-19 patients succumbed to the pandemic in the last 24 hours.

Meanwhile, 1,304 people have been diagnosed coronavirus positive in the last 24 hours.

Nepal’s COVID-19 tally has reached 233,452 with fresh cases as of Tuesday afternoon.

A total of 2,073 individuals got discharged from the hospitals in the past 24 hours while the number of people winning the battle against the virus reached 216,594 in the country.

Nepal currently has 16,633 active cases and 616 people are in quarantine facilities across the country.