The number of COVID-19 infected people has reached 66,632 after additional 1,356 new cases detected positive in Nepal on September 22, 2020. According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 48,061 have been discharged after recovery. On September 22, the rate of recovery reached 72.1% along with the 823 latest discharged after treatment. The ministry reported that 18,142 people are being treated. Till now, the death toll has reached 429. According to the Ministry, 11,154 number of swabs tests were conducted in the past 24 hours.
Provincial Reports
In Province 2,
According to Saptari Representative Manohar Kumar Pokhrel, the body of a 49-year-old man of Corona-infected Bishnupur rural municipality-1 has been managed by the Bhim Dal Battalion of the Nepal Army at Rajbiraj on September 20. He died at the BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, and Narayan Raut Barai, a malaria inspector at the Covid-19 office in Saptari, died at the Golden Hospital in Biratnagar.
Bhupendra Prasad Yadav, the nephew of the deceased, said that the patient was kept at home after his PCR report came positive on September 13 while he was undergoing treatment at Golden Hospital, Biratnagar. So far, the number of deaths in Saptari has reached 11.
According to Parsa Representative Krishnachandra Lamichhane, testing for COVID-19 infection has been stopped since September 22 after the reagent kit ran out in the laboratory at Narayani Hospital in Birgunj. Dr. Nira Pathak, Chief Consultant Pathologist of the Laboratory, has written to the Public Health Offices of Bara and Parsa and the Birgunj Municipal Corporation requesting them not to collect swabs as the reagent kit cannot be tested.
Spokesperson of Narayani Hospital, Dr Atulesh Kumar Chaurasia, informed that the PCR test was stopped due to the reagent.
In Bagmati Province
On September 22, the number of COVID-19 positive are as follows: 511 in Kathmandu, 73 in Lalitpur, 68 in Bhaktapur, 30 in Kavrepalanchok, 22 in Chitwan, nine in Ramechhap, four each in Dolakha and Makwanpur, three in Dhading, two each in Sindhuli and Sindhupalchowk and one in Nuwakot. At the same time, the number of infected people in the province has reached 22,577. Of them, 11,854 have returned home after treatment while 10,456 are undergoing treatment at various hospitals and isolation centres. The death toll from the COVID-19 has risen to 157 in the province.