Bishkek, Oct 28 (IANS): Kyrgyzstan has reported 538 new Covid-19 cases, taking the nationwide tally to 57,276, authorities said on Wednesday.

Two new deaths were registered over the last 24 hours, pushing the death toll to 1,138 in the Central Asian nation, Xinhua news agency reported.

The Republican Headquarters for Combating Covid-19 also reported 414 more recoveries, raising the total recoveries in the country to 48,637.

The novel coronavirus has spread to all regions nationwide. The worst-hit area is the capital Bishkek, where 139 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours and a total of 20,016 cases have been registered since the outbreak of the pandemic.

At a meeting of the headquarters on Wednesday, Ulan Mamatkanov, head of the social development department of the Government's Office of Kyrgyzstan, called for strengthening measures to improve the epidemiological situation in the country, banning weddings and festivities, and addressing the public through media on compliance with sanitary and epidemiological rules.