The Health Ministry has lowered the total number of infection in Nepal by five to 245.
The ministry had twice updated the infection number Thursday morning, adding two first and then five, to take the total number of infection to 250 from 243 Wednesday night.
But it has again issued another notice saying five of the reported new cases were in fact repeated from among those earlier reported.
"The total number of persons with confirmed COVID-19 infection remains 245 as per the updated details," the ministry has said in the notice issued at 10:15 in the morning. "I want to inform that details of five already confirmed were reported in the latest update due to technical reasons," the statement signed by Deputy Spokesperson at the ministry Dr Samir Kumar Adhikari adds.