KATHMANDU: The country recorded a total of 1,570 new cases of coronavirus and 13 deaths in the past 24 hours as of Monday.

Of the confirmed cases today, 1,022 were detected through the RT-PCR method and 548 from the antigen method.

Likewise, there are 350 cases in Kathmandu, 28 in Bhaktapur and 59 cases in Lalitpur, taking the Valley’s total to 437 cases.

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 13 coronavirus-related deaths have been added to the COVID-19 death tally in the past 24 hours. With this, the COVID-19 death toll in the country is 11,827 to date.

Currently, there are 40,111 active cases in the country as 6,146 infected patients recovered.