June 30: The number of COVID-19 cases has been increasing in the country in the last few days. According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 62 new cases of coronavirus were detected on Wednesday against 44 on Tuesday.    
According to Spokesperson of the Health Ministry, Dr Sangeeta Kaushal Mishra, the latest number of coronavirus cases was confirmed from 1,620 tests.    
Kathmandu district recorded 39 new cases of coronavirus while six cases of coronavirus were detected in Lalitpur.    
Mishra shared that the country has 261 active cases of coronavirus. A total of 19 people recovered from the virus on Wednesday. With this, number of people recovered from the virus has reached 967,445 so far. The recovery rate is 98.9 per cent.    
Meanwhile, a total of 184,545 people received vaccine against coronavirus on Wednesday. The ministry administrated vaccine against coronavirus to children from five years to 12 years from June 23-29. -- RSS