Covid-19: Bangladesh registers 31 deaths, 1,233 new cases

The deadly coronavirus killed 31 more people and infected 1,233 others in Bangladesh in the last 24 hours till Friday morning, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The updated official figures took the total death toll of the virus to 27,368 while the caseload to 15,49,553, the DGHS said in a press statement this afternoon.

The new cases were counted after testing 27,141 samples at 815 government authorised laboratories in the country in the same period.

The country last recorded 22 single-day deaths on May 27 and 26 on September 20, this year.

The positivity rate of the virus slightly declined to 4.54 percent in the last 24 hours which was 4.61 percent on Thursday and 4.76 percent on Wednesday.

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that the daily case positivity rate should remain at 5 percent or below for 14 days before mass unlocking.

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.

Some 1,413 people were declared free from the infection taking the total number of recovery to 15,09,202 with the recovery rate 97.80 percent up from Thursday’s 97.38 percent and Wednesday’s 97.35 percent.

Meanwhile, the fatality rate of the virus remained static at 1.77 percent for two consecutive days.

Among the new victims, 16 died in Dhaka division, eight in Chattogram, two each in Rajshahi and Rangpue divisions, one each in Khulna, Sylhet and Mymensingh divisions while no casualty was reported in Barishal division during the period.

Of them, 18 male and 13 were female and the deceased were aged between 21 and 100 years and majority of them were between 51 and 80 years, according to the DGHS daily chart.

Among the victims, 26 breathed their last while undergoing treatment at different public hospitals, five died at different private hospitals in the 24 hours.

Meanwhile, Worldometer, a reference website that provides counters and real-time statistics for diverse topics, has recorded 47, 44, 170 deaths so far caused by the virus and 23, 14, 72, 004 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.

50 lakh Sinopharm doses arrive in Dhaka

Around 50 lakh more doses of the Sinopharm vaccine arrived in Dhaka from China in the early hours of Thursday.

A regular flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines landed at Shahjalal International Airport with the vaccine consignment around 2am.

On September 18, Bangladesh received some 50 lakh doses of the Sinopharm vaccine. Besides, 54 lakh doses of the Chinese Covid vaccine arrived in Bangladesh on September 11.