News Desk :
Bangladesh recorded 305 new Covid-19 cases in the 24 hours till Saturday morning, which is the lowest in more than nine months.
The last time Bangladesh recorded a low number of new cases was April 18, when 306 people tested positive for Covid-19.
On April 17, the country logged 266 cases in a 24-hour span.
With the new infections, the total number of cases has risen to 537,770, according to the daily virus update released by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Saturday afternoon. The country also registered eight more deaths from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, taking the number of total fatalities to 8,19
The DGHS said 11,935 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients between Friday and Saturday mornings.
As many as 12,135 samples, including those pending, were tested at 206 authorized labs across the country.
The daily test positivity rate stood at 2.51%, the lowest in 10 months since 4.90% on April 5. It was 2.07% on April 4.
On Friday, the infection rate was 2.79%.
The test positivity rate in the country has been in single digits since December 19.
To date, 3,736,608 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 14.39%.
The eight new deaths from Covid-19 include six men and two women. Five were from Dhaka division, two from Chittagong, and one from Khulna division.
All the victims died at hospitals.
So far, 6,206 men (75.78%) and 1,984 women (24.22%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected in the country stands at 1.52%.
The DGHS said 417 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 482,841 patients – 89.79% of all infected – have made full recovery across the country.
On March 8, the health authorities in Bangladesh reported the first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a new coronavirus strain named Sars-CoV-2. The novel coronavirus broke out in China’s Wuhan city in late December 2019 and quickly spread throughout the world, turning into a pandemic in less than three months.
The fast-spreading coronavirus claimed 2,310,810 lives and infected 105,985,509 people across the world till Saturday afternoon, according to Worldometer, a reference website that provides counters and real-time statistics for diverse topics.
As many as 77,624,675 people have recovered from Covid-19, which has spread to 219 countries and territories across the planet.
