Nepal recorded the 13th COVID-19 death on Saturday.
A 55-year-old woman from Dhangadi has died while undergoing dialysis at the Seti Provincial Hospital Friday. She has posthumously tested positive for the virus, according to the Health Ministry.
A 58-year-old man from Jagdulla rural municipality in Dolpa was also confirmed to have died of the virus earlier on Saturday after posthumously testing positive. His was the 12th COVID-19 death confirmed by Nepal.
The government on May 16 had confirmed that the 29-year-old new mother from Ramche in Bahrabise municipality, Sindhupalchowk was the first to die of COVID-19 in Nepal on May 14. The 25-year old man who died while quarantined in Banke on May 17 was the second.
The 70-year-old man who died at National Medical College in Birgunj on May 17 was the third and the 41-year-old man from Madane rural municipality of Gulmi who died at Crimson Hospital on May 21 the fourth.
The man who died in India while returning to Nepal on May 23 was the fifth while the man from Bungmati Lalitpur who died on May 27 the sixth.
The 35-year-old man from Dullu-11 of Dailekh who died in the quarantine facility of Dullu-7 was the seventh. The two-year-old girl who died at the isolation ward of Bajura District Hospital Sunday morning was the eighth.
The 45-year-old man from Purbakhola, Palpa, who died on June 2 was the ninth and the man from Dolakha who died at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) on June 3 10th.
The 20-year-old man from Hanse in Panchapuri municipality 2 who died at his home June 3 following 14 days of quarantine on return from India was 11th.
