News Desk :
Bangladesh reported three more Covid-linked deaths for the second consecutive day along with 312 fresh cases in 24 hours till Wednesday morning.
With this, the daily case positivity rate rose to 1.49 per cent today from Tuesday’s 1.45 per cent, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), reports UNB.
The positivity rate kept rising for the last three days as it was 1.42 per cent on Monday and 1.16 on Sunday.
Among the deceased, two were women and one was a man. Each of the deceased was from Chattogram, Rajshahi and Khulna divisions.
With the fresh numbers, the total fatalities rose to 27,961 while the caseload mounted to 1,574,948.
However, the mortality rate remained static at 1.78 per cent.
The fresh cases were detected after testing 20,770 samples, the DGHS added.
Besides, the recovery rate remained static at 97.73 per cent with the recovery of 338 more patients during the 24-hour period.
On Saturday, Bangladesh logged zero Covid-linked deaths with 178 cases.
So far, 3,54,14,244 people have fully been vaccinated in the country while 5,64,02,543 received the first dose as of Tuesday, according to the DGHS.
bdnews24.com adds: Bangladesh has registered three new deaths from COVID-19
in a day, taking the total toll to 27,961.
The COVID-19 caseload rose to 1,574,948 as 312 people tested positive for the disease in the 24 hours to 8 am on Wednesday, according to the latest government data.
Dhaka recorded the most cases among the eight divisions, logging 244 infections.
Nationwide, another 338 people recovered from the illness, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1,539,193.
As many as 21,002 samples were tested across the country, for a positivity rate of 1.49 percent. The latest figures put the recovery rate at 97.73 percent and the mortality rate at 1.78 percent.
Globally, over 258.90 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 5.16 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.
