Nepal reports 6,135 recoveries, 8,520 new cases and 203 deaths on Friday

KATHMANDU, May 14: Officials confirmed 8,520 new cases of the coronavirus disease in the past 24 hours. With 8,467 people being diagnosed with the virus through the 20,948 RT-PCR tests and 53 others through the 530 antigen tests, Nepal’s overall case tally has soared to 439,658.

Meanwhile, Nepal saw steady growth in the number of day-wise recoveries from coronavirus. On Friday, as many as 6,135 got over the illness which took the total number of recoveries to 327,653.