{"id":50,"date":"2020-07-17T08:41:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T02:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathmandupati.local\/?p=50"},"modified":"2020-08-02T08:56:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T08:56:15","slug":"health-ministry-confirms-one-more-covid-19-related-death-and-740-new-cases-as-national-tally-crosses-15000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Health Ministry confirms one more Covid-19 related death and 740 new cases as national tally crosses 15,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal confirmed its 32nd Covid-19 related death and registered 740 new cases, the highest in a single day, on Friday as the national tally reached 15,259.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn 85-year-old man from New Baneshwor, Kathmandu, who was admitted to a private hospital for chest pain and urine related ailments, died at 11 pm on Wednesday while undergoing treatment at the intensive care unit,\u201d said Dr Jageshwor Gautam, spokesperson for the Health Ministry, at a regular\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/489034948251696\/videos\/684670865413668\">press briefing<\/a>. \u201cHe had high blood pressure and was suffering from Parkinson&#8217;s disease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the new fatality, the Covid-19 toll has reached 32.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry also confirmed 740 new cases in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of the 4,483 PCR tests carried out in the last 24 hours at various labs across the country, samples of 740 individuals came back positive for the coronavirus,\u201d said Gautam.<\/p>\n<p>The country had recorded\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kathmandupost.com\/health\/2020\/07\/02\/health-ministry-confirms-one-more-covid-19-related-death-and-473-new-cases-as-national-tally-reaches-14-519\">one death and 473 new case<\/a>s on Thursday while\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kathmandupost.com\/health\/2020\/07\/01\/health-ministry-confirms-30th-death-and-482-new-cases-as-covid-19-tally-reaches-14-046\">one death and 482 new cases<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/kathmandupost.com\/health\/2020\/06\/30\/with-316-new-covid-19-cases-national-tally-reaches-13-564\">\u00a0<\/a>were confirmed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo far, 242,247 polymerase chain reaction tests have been conducted across the country,\u201d said Gautam. \u201cA total of 6,143 individuals have recovered from the disease in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Track all Covid-19 cases in Nepal\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kathmandupost.com\/covid19\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal confirmed its 32nd Covid-19 related death and registered 740 new cases, the highest in a single day, on Friday as the national tally reached 15,259. \u201cAn 85-year-old man from New Baneshwor, Kathmandu, who was admitted to a private hospital for chest pain and urine related ailments, died at 11 pm on Wednesday while undergoing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nepal","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - 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