News Desk :
Bangladesh has registered 17 more deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours until Friday morning, taking the number of total fatalities to 7,576.
The country also logged more than 514,000 coronavirus cases with 990 people having tested positive over the same period.
With the latest figure, the number of all confirmed cases so far jumped to 514,500, according to the daily virus update released on Friday by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Of the 17 deceased — 10 men and seven women — 12 were from Dhaka division, two each from Chittagong and Khulna, and one from Rangpur division.
Among the victims, 16 died at different hospitals and one at home.
So far, 5,764 men (76.08%) and 1,812 women (23.92%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.47%.
The DGHS said 12,074 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
As many as 12,103 samples, including the pending ones, were tested in the 180 authorized labs – government and private – across the country and 990 new patients were confirmed.
The latest figures show an infection rate of 8.18%.
To date, 3,239,701 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 15.88% so far.
The health authorities said 1,197 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 458,656 patients – 89.15% of all infected – have made full recovery across the country.
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 of 2019 and quickly spread throughout the world, becoming a pandemic in less than three months.
The fast spreading coronavirus has claimed 1,827,859 lives and infected 83,907,125 people across the world till Friday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
As many as 59,405,632 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has spread to 218 countries and territories across the planet.
