News Desk :
Bangladesh has registered 43 deaths from Covid-19 in the 24 hours to Saturday morning, highest since May 10.
It was May 9 last when the country had recorded more Covid-19 casualties – 56 deaths.
With the latest development, the total number of deaths reached 12,801 in the country, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said in a press release.
The country also logged a total of 1,447 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of infections to 809,314.
The latest figures show an infection rate of 11.03%. As many as 13,115 samples, including the pending ones, were tested in the 509 authorized labs – government and private – across the country.
The daily test-positivity rate remained below 10% for four consecutive days – from Monday to Thursday – before crossing that mark again on Friday – 10.4%.
To date, 6,034,260 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 13.41%.
Of the 43 deceased – 30 men and 13 women – 12 each from Dhaka and Rajshahi divisions, eight from Chittagong, five from Khulna, three from Rangpur, two Mymensingh, and one from Sylhet division.
Forty-two of them died while undergoing treatment at the different hospitals of the country while one died at home.
Twenty-one of the deceased patients were aged above 60, 13 between 51 and 60, two between 41 and 50, five aged between 31 and 40, one between 21 and 30, and one was aged below 10.
So far, 9,231 men (72.11%) and 3,570 women (27.89%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
Since the beginning, 7,255 people have died in Dhaka division, 2,445 in Chittagong, 721 in Rajshahi, 810 in Khulna, 388 in Barisal, 470 in Sylhet, 482 in Rangpur, and 160 in Mymensingh.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.54%.
The health authorities said 1,667 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 749,425 patients – 92.60% – have made full recovery across the country.
Currently, 20,824 people are in isolation and 44,100 are quarantined.
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.
The fast-spreading coronavirus has claimed more than 3,728,000 lives and infected as many as 173,367,000 people across the world till Saturday afternoon, according to worldometer.
As many as 156,138,000 people have recovered from Covid-19, which has affected 220 countries and territories across the planet.
