8 Covid-linked deaths counted, infection rate 3.35% in 24hrs
BI Report || BusinessInsider
Business Insider Bangladesh Infograph
Bangladesh registered 8 more coronavirus-related deaths and 799 related cases in the last 24 hours till Tuesday morning, according to government data.
The daily positivity rate declined to 3.35 percent from Monday’s 3.65 percent and Sunday’s 4.01 percent, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) in a handout this afternoon.
Meanwhile, the mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.49 percent and the recovery rate increased to 93.71 percent which was 93.37 percent a day ago.
The fresh numbers took the country’s total fatalities to 29,045 while the confirmed cases mounted to 19,44,376, according to the DGHS.
The new cases were detected after testing 23,817 samples at 876 government authorised laboratories in the country during the 24 hours period.
7,460 patients were released from different public and private hospitals, pushing the total number of recovery to 18,22,125.
Among the deceased, five were male and three were female and they were aged between zero and 80 years.
Three deaths were recorded in Chattogram division, two in Rajshahi and one each in Dhaka, Khulna and Mymensingh divisions. However, Barishal, Sylhet and Rangpur divisions did not see any casualty of the virus during the period.
Of the new victims, six breathed their last while undergoing treatment at deferment public hospitals and two at private hospitals.
Bangladesh, on January 28, registered its earlier highest daily positivity rate at 33.37 percent reporting 15,440 cases and 20 deaths.
On December 9 last year, the health authorities again logged zero Covid-related death after nearly three weeks as the pandemic was apparently showing signs of easing.
The country reported first zero Covid-related death in a single day on November 20 last year along with 178 infections since the pandemic broke out in Bangladesh in March 2020.
Besides, the country registered the highest daily caseload of 16,230 on July 28 last year, while the highest number of daily fatalities was 264 on August 10 last year.
Since the outbreak of the virus at Wuhan province in China in 2019, the health authorities in Bangladesh confirmed the first case on March 8, 2020 and the first death on March 18 in the same year.
Worldometer, a reference website that provides counters and real-time statistics for diverse topics, has so far recorded 59, 76, 964 deaths so far caused by the virus and 43, 75, 55, 572 cases worldwide.