
On Saturday, Nepal reported 1,946 new COVID-19 cases and 13 additional fatalities, all of which occurred over the past 24 hours.
In total, Nepal has reported 208,299 COVID-19 cases and 1,215 coronavirus related fatalities.
The United States is currently leading global COVID-19 cases with over 11 million infections and 249,998 fatalities, although India follows closely behind with 8.7 million cases and 129,225 deaths. As for the third-highest caseload and death toll, Brazil follows with 5.8 million cases and 164,946 deaths, Russia with 1.9 million cases and 32,834 deaths, and France with 1.9 million cases and 43,892 coronavirus related deaths.
The novel coronavirus was first discovered in Wuhan, Hubei, China, on Dec. 31, 2019, and has infected more than 53 million individuals worldwide, resulting in over 1.3 million fatalities across 216 countries and territories.