News Desk :
Bangladesh has recorded 77 more deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing the total fatalities to 14,053.
Besides, the overcall caseload has surged to 8,83,138 as 4,334 fresh cases were confirmed during the period.
Among the dead in the past 24 hours, 48 were male while 29 were female, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Chattogram saw 20 deaths, the most among the eight divisions, in the 24 hours to 8 am Saturday. Khulna counted 19 deaths and Dhaka 17 in the same period.
A total of 19,262 samples were tested across the country in the last 24 hours, taking the positivity rate to 22.50 percent.
The recovery count rose to 8,00,854 after another 3,295 patients were discharged from the hospitals during the past one day. The recovery count stands at 90.68 percent.
Earlier on Friday, 108 deaths linked to Covid-19, and 5,859 fresh cases were reported. Bangladesh reported the first Covid-19 cases on March 8 and the first deaths on March 18, 2020.
BSS adds: In the past 24 hours, the combined figure of coronavirus patients in Dhaka city and upazilas of Dhaka district is 1,328 while the tally of infections in the country has stood at 4,334 during the same period.
The DGHS said as of June 26, 5,10,581 out of 8,83,138 were detected alone in Dhaka district including the city.
The DGHS said among the total 14,053 fatalities, 7,489 deaths occurred in Dhaka division, 2,670 in Chattogram, 961 in Rajshahi, 1,133 in Khulna, 414 in Barishal, 518 in Sylhet, 569 in Rangpur and 299 in Mymensingh division.
Bangladesh recorded the highest number of COVID-19 fatality on April 19 this year when the virus killed 112 people in a day.
The DGHS said Bangladesh’s COVID-19 confirmed cases crossed 5,000 mark on March 29, 2021 and 6,000 mark on April 1, 2021 while it surpassed 7,000 mark on April 4, 2021.
The country recorded 7,626 COVID-19 cases on April 7 this year, the highest daily spike since the outbreak of the pandemic, it added.
According to month-wise statistics last year, 51 COVID-19 positive cases were detected in March 2020, 7616 in April, 39,486 in May, 98,330 in June, 92,178 in July, 75,335 in August, 50,483 in September, 44, 205 in October, 57,248 in November and 48,578 in December.
The beginning of the current year witnessed a drastic fall of coronavirus cases in the country but the trend lasted for only two months – 21,629 cases were detected in January and 11,077 in February.
After the drastic fall of COVID-19 confirmed cases, the country witnessed sharp increase of infection as 65,079 cases were reported in March, 2021 and 1,47,837 cases in April.
According to month-wise statistics last year, five COVID-19 deaths were reported in March, 2020, 163 in April, 482 in May, 1,197 in June, 1,264 in July, 1,179 in August, 970 in September, 672 in October, 721 in November and 915 in December.
Month-wise data of the current year, 568 coronavirus fatalities were recorded in January, 2021, 281 in February, 638 in March and 2,404 in April, the DGHS sources said.
The DGHS said in order to make treatment facilities easily available for
the COVID-19 patients, the government has introduced telemedicine services comprising 100 physicians for round the clock in the country.
It added that 2,86,49,478 people received healthcare services from hotline mobile numbers and health web portals as the government formed a group of medical professionals to provide emergency healthcare services.
To receive information and treatment facilities on COVID-19, the contact hotline and mobile numbers are 16263; 333; 10655 and 01944333222.
As of June 26, 2021, 12.09 GMT, 3,927,015 people have died so far from the COVID-19 outbreak and there are currently 181,262,369 confirmed cases in 212 countries and territories, according to Worldometer, a reference website that provides counters and real-time statistics for diverse topics.
China was the world’s first country which on January 11, 2020 reported the first death from the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, the capital of Central China’s Hubei province.
