News Desk :
Bangladesh logged 19 more Covid-linked deaths with 4,692 fresh cases in 24 hours till Monday morning.
The daily positivity rate slightly declined to 13.53per cent from Sunday’s 14.85 per cent after testing 34,649 samples during the period, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). On Sunday, Bangladesh reported 28 more Covid-linked deaths with 4,838 fresh cases, reports UNB.
Of the 230 deaths recorded from February 7 to February 13, some 40.4 per cent received Covid vaccines while 59.6 per cent did not, the DGHS mentioned.
Comorbidities among the deceased increased 16.1 per cent this week compared to the previous one. Comorbidity means the simultaneous presence of two or more diseases or medical conditions in a patient.
The fresh numbers took the country’s total fatalities to 28,838 while the caseload mounted to 1,914,356.
Among the new deceased, 12 were men and seven women.
Ten of the deaths were reported in Dhaka division while three in Chattogram, two in Mymensingh, one each in in Khulna, Barishal, Sylhet and Rangpur divisions.
Meanwhile, the mortality rate remained static at 1.51 per cent.
However, the recovery rate slightly rose to 88.38 per cent with the recovery of 13,237 more patients during the 24-hour period.
On January 28, Bangladesh logged its earlier highest daily positivity rate at 33.37 per cent reporting 15,440 cases and 20 deaths.
On December 9 last year, Bangladesh again logged zero Covid-related death after nearly three weeks as the pandemic was apparently showing signs of easing.
The country reported first zero Covid-related death in a single day on November 20 last year along with 178 infections since the pandemic broke out in Bangladesh in March 2020.
Besides, the country registered the highest daily caseload of 16,230 on July 28 last year, while the highest number of daily fatalities was 264 on August 10 last year.
