News Desk :
Bangladesh reported 198 more Covid-19 deaths and 7,535 new coronavirus infections in the 24 hours to 8am Tuesday.
With the latest tally, the number of nationwide deaths caused by the pandemic now stands at 24,547, while the caseload has risen to 1,433,396, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Of the 198 new fatalities, 116 were men and 82 women.
Dhaka logged the highest deaths with 72 fatalities, followed by Chittagong with 52. Khulna division counted 26 deaths while Sylhet division 18, Rajshahi nine, Mymensingh eight, Barisal seven and Rangpur six, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Besides, the daily test positivity rate has dropped below 20% – in the last 24 hours, 39,278 samples were tested resulting in a positivity rate of 19.18%.The last time the positivity rate was below 20% was on June 22 when the daily test positivity was 19.36%.
During the same period, 12,950 people recovered from the disease taking the total number of recoveries to 1,314,916.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.71%.
To date, 8,480,814 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall test positivity rate of 16.9%.
Dhaka logged 4,335 cases, the highest among the eight divisions, followed by Chittagong with 1,325 cases, Khulna with 471, Sylhet with 357, and Rajshahi with 333.
On March 8, health authorities in Bangladesh reported the first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a new coronavirus strain which was later named Sars-CoV-2.
The novel coronavirus broke out in China’s Wuhan city in late December, 2019 and quickly spread throughout the world, becoming a pandemic in less than three months.
