KARNALI: The total number of COVID-19 infected has crossed 1,100 in Karnali State.
Chief of Health Service Division at Social Development Ministry Dr Laxmi Narayan Tiwari informed that the infected cases have reached 1,104 including 82 females in the State.
It should be noted that 14 new cases were spotted from the PCR test in Karnali Academy of Health Sciences and two each in Surkhet and Dailekh district.
According to Dr Tiwari, Dailekh has the highest number of the cases with 636 followed by Surkhet, Salyan, Kalikot, Jumla and Jajarkot.
Likewise, Surkhet has 237 cases while 137 infected ones are in Salyan, 42 in Kalikot, 24 in Jumla, 8 in Jajarkot, two in Mugu and one each in Humla and Dolpa.
In Karnali State, as many as 494 patients returned home after full recovery from the coronavirus infection so far.
Meanwhile, West Rukum of the State is in the green zone till date as no case was spotted. In West Rukum, altogether 1,790 people have returned home from different Indian cities.
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