kathmandu with growing cases of covid19 cases in nepal 12 districts in the country have entered the phase of community transmission the ministry of health and population said on tuesdayin a press briefing the countrys public health advisor dr suresh tiwari said that nepal has entered community transmission in 12 districts including its capital kathmandu12 districts and out of them 4 have more than 1000 active cases till today combining it with other 8 districts these 12 districts hosts around 73 per cent of the active cases this has signalled that these 12 territories or the pocket areas which we also can call hotspots have been adversely infected with this we have reached to the point that there has been community transmission in these areas tiwari saidthe districts under the community transmission include morang sunsari dhanusha mahottari parsa bara rautahat sarlahi kathmandu lalitpur chitwan and rupandehidr tiwari also pointed out the rate of transmission amongst women had gone up from 5 per cent to around 2223 per cent and fatality of elderly population soared to around 4 per centon tuesday a total of 1069 new cases of infection were reported throughout the country kathmandu valley alone reported 481 cases of infectionwith newly reported cases nepals covid19 count on tuesday reached 40529the covid19 death tally of the country stands at 239 while a total of 22178 people have recovered from the virus so far