Nepal’s daily COVID-19 test positivity rate is almost three times more than that of India

KATHMANDU, Jan 23: Nepal on Saturday recorded as many as 10,254 new cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) through 20,187 tests conducted across the country.

Of the total test conducted on Saturday, 8,212 PCR tests and 2,042 antigen tests turned out to be positive for the disease. Based on this data, the COVID-19 positivity rate of the country stood at 50.79 percent.