BSS, Rajshahi :
Sixteen more people have tested positive for Covid-19 in six districts of the division on Monday, taking the caseload to 99,062 since the pandemic began in March last year.
However, the new positive cases are almost similar to the previous day’s figure, said Dr Habibul Ahsan Talukder, divisional director of Health, adding that a total of 13 people were infected on Sunday.
Besides on October 20, the infection figure was just four, which was the lowest-ever in the division since the second wave of the pandemic hit the country. Meanwhile, the recovery count rose to 95,452 in the division after 178 patients were discharged from the hospitals on the same day.
The death toll reached 1,676, including 685 in Bogura, 321 in Rajshahi with 203 in its city, and 174 in Natore as no new fatality was reported during the period, Dr Talukder added.
Besides, all the positive cases of Covid-19 have, so far, been brought under treatment while 23,031 were kept in isolation units of different dedicated hospitals for institutional quarantine. Of them, 19,632 have been released.
eanwhile, 20 more people have been sent to home and institutional quarantine afresh while 16 others were released from isolation during the same time.
Of the 16 new cases, six were detected in Rajshahi city, followed by three in Joypurhat, two each in Naogaon, Natore and Bogura and one in Pabna districts.
With the newly detected patients, the district-wise break-up of the total cases now stands at 28,145 in Rajshahi including 22,706 in its city, 5,682 in Chapainawabganj, 6,419 in Naogaon, 8,392 in Natore, 4,630 in Joypurhat, 21,651 in Bogura, 11,412 in Sirajganj and 12,731 in Pabna.
A total of 1,14,055 people have, so far, been kept under quarantine since March 10 last year to prevent community transmission of the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19).
Of them, 1,12,978 have, by now, been released as they were given clearance certificates after completing their 14-day quarantine.
