Covid-19: Bangladesh sees 88 deaths, 2,341 new cases

Bangladesh on Thursday reported 88 more coronavirus-related deaths and 2,341 new cases as the country grapples with the second wave of the deadly virus.

With the updated figure, the deadly virus so far claimed 11,393 lives and infected 7,56,955 people in the country, according to a handout of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The daily infection rate dropped to 9.39 percent from Wednesday’s 10.48 percent and Tuesday’s 12.51 percent while the mortality rate rose to 1.51 percent from Wednesday’s 1.50 percent.

The number of recoveries now stands at 6, 77,101 including 4,782 new cases. This means, 89.45 percent of the patients have recovered.

24,928 samples were tested at 358 government authorised laboratories and of them, 2,341 cases were found positive in the last 24 hours.

the deceased, 52 were men while 36 were women and of them, three died at houses in the same time, the DGHS said.

Meanwhile, Worldometer, a reference website that provides counters and real-time statistics for diverse topics, has recorded 31, 66, 902 deaths so far caused by the virus and 15, 03, 36, 400 cases worldwide.

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

Experts have raised concerns about the spread of more contagious and deadlier variants of the virus.

The icddr,b, in a recent research, has claimed to have found the South African variant for 81 percent of the positive cases in Dhaka since the third-week of March this year.