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Covid claims 5 lives, infection rate reaches 12.73% in 24hrs

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Published: 16:50, 20 September 2022   Update: 17:09, 20 September 2022
Covid claims 5 lives, infection rate reaches 12.73% in 24hrs

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Bangladesh health authorities recorded five more deaths from coronavirus and 614 related cases in the last 24 hours till Tuesday morning, according to the health department.

The case positivity rate rose to 12.73 percent which was 11.60 percent on Monday, according to the handout of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The new cases were detected after testing 4,825 samples at 881 government authorised laboratories in the country during the period.

With the updated data, the death toll of the virus mounted to 29,345 while the caseload to 20,18,829 as of Tuesday.

Meanwhile, some 283 patients recovered from the virus-related illness, taking the total number of recovery to 19,61,260.

The mortality rate of the virus remained unchanged at 1.45 percent while the recovery rate declined to 97.15 percent from Mondays’ 97.16 percent.

Of the deceased, three were male while two were female and two of them were from Dhaka, one each from Chattogram, Barishial, and Mymensingh divisions.

All the victims, aged between 51 and 90 years, breathed his last while undergoing treatment at government hospital in their respective divisions.

The health authorities also detected 494 cases in Dhaka, 18 in Mymensingh, 24 in Chattogram, 38 in Rajshahi, five in Rangpur, eight in Khulna, 20 in Barishal and seven in Sylhet divisions during the period.

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 in 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 of the same year.

Worldometer, a reference website that provides counters and real-time statistics for diverse topics, has recorded 65, 32, 220 deaths so far caused by the virus and 61, 77, 29, 932 cases worldwide.

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