Staff Reporter :
With a surge in infections, Bangladesh reported 2,101 new cases from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours till 8am Monday.
Also, two people died of the virus during the same period, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) data.
The new figures took the country’s total death toll to 29,142 while caseload to 19,67,274, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
On the other hand, Coronavirus new variant transmitted quickly said Medicine specialist and also a private physician of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Dr ABM Abdullah.
Professor Emeritus further said there is no alternatives except wearing face mask to tackle the novel coronavirus fourth waves.
Monday in a seminar organized by University Grants Commission (UGC), he made the remarks.
Dr ABM Abdullah said imposing restriction or lock down may not essential this time to protect spreading of coronavirus. But he emphasized to wear mast to keep people safe from deadly Covid-19.
The country last reported 2,150 cases on February 19 with 13 deaths when the daily positivity rate was at 9%.
The daily case positivity rate slightly declined to 15.20% from Sunday’s 15.66% as 13,820 samples were tested during the period, said the DGHS.
The deceased included a woman and a man, both from Dhaka division.
On Sunday, the country recorded 1,680 cases with two deaths from Covid-19.
Of the five deaths reported from June 20 to June 26, some 77.8% received vaccine against Covid-19 while 22.2% did not.
Several of them had one or two comorbidities. Comorbidity means the simultaneous presence of two or more diseases or medical conditions in a patient.
The mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.48%. The recovery rate declined to 96.93% from Sunday’s 97.02% as 179 patients recovered during this period.
In May, the country reported only four Covid-linked deaths and 816 new cases, while 7,356 patients recovered from the disease, according to the DGHS.
Among the four deaths during the period, one was vaccinated with a single dose of Covid vaccine while three were vaccinated with two doses.
The country reported its first zero Covid death in a single day on November 20 last year, along with 178 cases, since the pandemic broke out in Bangladesh in March 2020.
On January 28, Bangladesh logged its previous highest positivity rate of 33.37%.
The country registered its highest daily caseload of 16,230 on July 28 last year and daily fatalities of 264 on August 10 in the same year.
Children aged between five and 11 will be administered with Pfizer vaccine.
Birth certificate is required to register for Covid vaccine through Surokkha App.
Additional director general of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Professor Meerjady Sabrina Flora said this at a discussion held in the capital on Monday.
She asked those parents who do not collect their children’s birth certificates to collect those as soon as possible.
Besides, the additional director general called all people to follow the health rules in the sacrificial animal markets.
