News Desk :
Bangladesh has registered 9 new deaths from COVID-19 in a day, taking the total toll to 27,814.
The COVID-19 caseload rose to 1,567,417 as 278 people tested positive for the disease in the 24 hours to 8 am on Saturday, according to the latest government data, reports bdnews24.com.
Dhaka, Chattogram and Rajshahi all registered three fatalities, the most among the eight divisions.
Dhaka also logged the most new cases, with 192 infections.
Nationwide, another 294 people recovered from the illness, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1,530,941.
As many as 15,042 samples were tested across the country, for a positivity rate of 1.85 percent. The latest figures put the recovery rate at 97.67 percent and the mortality rate at 1.77 percent.
Globally, over 243.08 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 4.94 million have died, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.
UNB adds: Covid-19 claimed nine more lives and infected another 278 people in Bangladesh in 24 hours till Saturday morning. The daily-case positivity increased slightly to 1.85 per cent from Friday’s 1.36 per cent after a streak of declining trend.
With the fresh numbers, the Covid fatalities reached 27,814 while the caseload climbed to 1,567,417 in Bangladesh, according to the Directorate General of the Health services (DGHS).
Of the latest deaths, six were men and 3 were women.
The new cases were detected after testing 15,042 samples during the 24-hour period.
However, the mortality rate remained static at 1.77 per cent compared to the same period.
Also, the recovery rate remained unchanged at 97.67 per cent, with 294 more patients getting cured.
