KATHMANDU: A test conducted at Seti Provincial Hospital has confirmed coronavirus infection in 45 people on Sunday.

The hospital said in a statement that 137 samples were tested for coronavirus and out of them, 45 samples tested positive.

Among the newly infected are 12 women and 33 men from Dadeldhura, Kailali and Kanchanpur.

The newly-infected are one woman and four men from Dadeldhura, three women and nine men from Kailali, eight women including two girls aged 6 and 12 years and 20 men including five boys aged 4, 7, 11, 11 and 13 years from Kanchanpur.