Staff Reporter :
Bangladesh on Tuesday reported 2,202 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours, pushing the country’s total tally to 481,945.
Health authorities also recorded 32 more deaths from the disease during the period, raising the death toll to 6,906.
The mortality rate, however, is still at 1.43 percent, said the Directorate General of Health Services.
So far, 401,194 patients – 83.24 percent-including 2,571 new ones in the last 24 hours have recovered.
Bangladesh reported its first cases on March 8. The infection number reached the 300,000-mark on August 26. The first death was reported on March 18 and the death toll exceeded 6,000 on November 4.
Until now, 2,894,622 tests have been carried out, including 17,084 new ones, and 16.65 percent of the patients turned out to be positive.
Bangladesh is seeing 2829.87 infections, 2355.72recoveries, and 40.55 deaths per million.
