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Nepal on Tuesday reported the first COVID-19-related death in the last three months and detected 106 new cases of the virus in the past 24 hours, a week after the Himalayan nation confirmed the detection of the new Omicron variant "XBB1.16"..
The country-wide death toll reached 12,021 with the addition of the lone death, The Ministry of Health and Population said during its regular briefing on Tuesday...
The country confirmed 74 positive cases from the 476 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours..
The Ministry said it cautioned its citizens after the XBB1.6 variant's detection, which has been identified and spreading in neighbouring India...
"A new variant of Omicron 'XBB1.16', spreading in the neighbouring country India, has also been detected in Nepal..
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