Covid-19 23 new deaths recorded

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UNB, Dhaka :
Bangladesh on Sunday saw further spike in Covid-19cases as the health authorities of the country detected 1,308 new patients across the country in 24 hours, taking the total to 398,815.
During the period, 23 more patients died from Covid-19, raising the death toll to 5,803.
Besides, the total recoveries from coronavirus have jumped up to 315,107 with recovery of 1,544 patients from the disease during the period.
The fatality rate in Bangladesh is 1.46 percent, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said.
The daily infection rate on Sunday was recorded 11.78 percent upon testing 11,103 samples in 24 hours. 17.67 percent of the tested 22,57,589 samples so far have turned out to be Covid-19 positive. The recovery rate has climbed to 79.01 percent in Bangladesh, the health authorities said.
Bangladesh is seeing 2341.75 infections, 1850.24 recoveries and 34.07 deaths per million.
Currently, there are 77.907 active cases in the country.
Of the total victims, 4,471 are men and 1,332 are women. Of the latest 23 victims, 19 are aged above 50 years, three between 41 and 50 years and one other is aged between 31 and 40 years.
So far, 2,995 people have died in Dhaka division, 1,154 in Chattogram, 370 in Rajshahi, 464 in Khulna, 197 in Barishal, 241 in Sylhet, 261 in Rangpur and 121 in Mymensingh.
Across the country, 12,104 people are now in isolation and 39,731 in quarantine.
Bangladesh reported its first cases on March 8. The number of cases reached the 300,000-mark on August 26. The first death was reported on March 18 and the death toll exceeded 5,000 on Sept 22.
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