News Desk :
Bangladesh has registered 11 new deaths from COVID-19 in a day, taking the total toll to 27,699, reports bdnews24.com
The COVID-19 caseload rose to 1,562,958 as 599 people tested positive for the disease in the 24 hours to 8 am on Monday, according to the latest government data.
Dhaka registered the most daily deaths and new cases among the eight divisions, logging 7 fatalities and 456 infections.
Nationwide, another 699 people recovered from the illness, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1,523,833.
As many as 23,193 samples were tested across the country, for a positivity rate of 2.58 percent. The latest figures put the recovery rate at 97.53 percent and the mortality rate at 1.77 percent.
Globally, more than 237.94 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and over 4.85 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.
BSS adds: Bangladesh on Monday reported 599 COVID-19 cases while the coronavirus claimed overnight 11 lives.
“The country reported 2.58 percent COVID-19 positive cases as 23,193 samples were tested in the past 24 hours, ” Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS)
said in its routine daily statement.
In the past 24 hours, the combined figure of coronavirus in Dhaka city and upazilas of Dhaka district is 407 while five COVID-19 deaths were reported during the same period.
The official tally showed the virus killed 27,699 people and infected 15,62,958 so far, it added.
The recovery count rose to 15,24,467 after another 634 patients were discharged from the hospitals during the past one day.
The DGHS statistics showed of the people infected from the beginning 97.53 percent recovered, while 1.77 percent died.
The DGHS said among the total 27,699 fatalities, 12,075 deaths occurred in Dhaka division, 5,620 in Chattogram, 2032 in Rajshahi, 3,574 in Khulna, 941 in Barishal, 1,258 in Sylhet, 1,360 in Rangpur and 839 in Mymensingh division.
