The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) confirmed 62 new cases of COVID-19 in Kathmandu Valley on Saturday.
In 7,788 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, as many as 62 persons were found with the virus infection in the Valley itself, informed Dr. Jageshwor Gautam, spokesperson of the ministry.
Of the 62 new cases, 56 were detected in Kathmandu and three each in Bhaktapur and Lalitpur.
Moreover, 378 cases of virus infection were detected across the nation on Saturday, taking the tally to 22,592 including 16,313 cases of recovery and 73 death cases.