Covid positivity rate drops to 12.18%, no death in 24hrs

Bangladesh witnessed a downward trend in infection rate of coronavirus after four straight days as the health authorities recorded 1,685 new cases of the virus with no related death in the last 24 hours till Friday morning.

The daily case positivity rate declined to 12.18 percent during the period from yesterday’s 14.32 percent, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) in a hand out this afternoon.

The fatality rate declined to 1.48 percent from 1.89 percent while death toll from the virus remained unchanged at 29, 135 as no fatality was recorded in the 24 hours period, said the DGHS.

Besides, the recovery rate declined to 97.16 percent which was 97.23 percent a day ago, according to the handout.

The new cases were detected after testing 13,833 samples at 880 government authorised laboratories in the country during the period.

Meanwhile, some 185 people recovered from the infection, taking the total number of recovery to 19,06,417.

Of the new cases, 1,584 people found positive in Dhaka division, 71 in Chattogram, 10 in Barishal, eight in Rajshahi, five in Khulna, three each in Mymensingh and Sylhet and one in Rangpur divisions.

In May, the country reported only four Covid-linked deaths and 816 new cases, while 7,356 patients recovered from the disease.

The country reported its first zero Covid-related death in a single day on November 20 last year, along with 178 infections.

On January 28, Bangladesh registered its previous highest daily positivity rate at 33.37 percent reporting 15,440 cases and 20 deaths.

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 63, 47, 901 deaths so far caused by the virus and, 54, 75, 07, 802 cases worldwide.