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26 more die from Covid-19, positivity rate drops below 5

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Published: 22:28, 21 September 2021   Update: 23:07, 21 September 2021
26 more die from Covid-19, positivity rate drops below 5

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Bangladesh registered 26 more coronavirus-related deaths and 1,562 new cases in the last 24 hours till Tuesday morning, the lowest in around four months.

The positivity rate stood at 4.69 percent in the same period while the World Health Organisation recommends 5 percent for the normal situation.

The fresh numbers put the country’s total death toll to 27,277 while the caseload to 15,45,800, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) in a handout this afternoon.

The country last recorded 22 single-day deaths on May 27 and 26 on September 20, this year. The health authorities last recorded 5.13 percent daily case positivity rate of the virus on March 9 this year.

Besides, the new cases were detected after testing 33,327 samples at 810 government authorised laboratories across the country in the same time.

Some 1,603 people were declared free from the infection taking the total number of recovery to 15,04,709 with the recovery rate 97.34 percent

Meanwhile, the fatality rate of the virus remained static at 1.76 percent for few weeks, said the DGHS.

The country last witnessed the upswing in fatalities reaching its peak on August 5 and 10 when 264 deaths were recorded.

Between May and June this year, there was a 273 percent rise in monthly caseloads and 162 percent in fatalities.

In July, there was a 150 percent increase in caseloads and a 170 percent rise in deaths compared to the previous month, according to the WHO.

Among the new victims, 15 died in Dhaka division, three each in Chattogram and Rajshahi divisions, two each in Khulna and Sylhet, one in Mymensingh while no casualty was reported in Barishal and Rangpur divisions during the period.

Of them, 16 male and 10 were female and the deceased were aged between 21 and 100 years, according to the DGHS daily chart.

Among the victims, 21 breathed their last while undergoing treatment at different public hospitals, four died at different private hospitals while one at a house in the 24 hours.

Meanwhile, Worldometer, a reference website that provides counters and real-time statistics for diverse topics, has recorded 47, 15, 160 deaths so far caused by the virus and 22, 98, 95, 738 cases worldwide.

Since the outbreak of the virus in China in 2019, the health authority in Bangladesh confirmed the first case on March 8, 2020 and recorded the first death on March 18 in the same year.

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