With 26 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Sunday the nation's novel coronavirus tally has reached 1000,734

According to Ministry of Health and Population, in 1209 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 26 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its regular update.

Likewise, in 660 antigen tests performed in the last 24 hours 2 cases are detected positive.

Currently, there are 570 active cases of COVID-19 across the nation while 560 patients are placed in home isolation and 10 are admitted to hospitals.

Meanwhile,18 COVID-19 patients receiving treatment in institutional isolation or staying in home isolation recovered from the infection in the last 24 hours. Nepal has now recorded 988,145 cases of recovery, and the recovery rate is at 98.7 per cent.

The MoHP on Sunday reported no COVID-19 related fatalities to the nation's COVID-19 death toll, which has now reached 12,019.