The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) confirmed 313 new cases of COVID-19 in the Kathmandu Valley.

The Ministry of Health and Population said in 2762 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 313 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2.

Of the new 313 infections, Kathmandu district records 253 cases, 36 in Lalitpur and 24 in Bhaktapur.

With 509 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Tuesday the nation's novel coronavirus tally has reached 987,737