News Desk :
Bangladesh registered 5 deaths from Covid-19 in the 24 hours to Friday morning, taking the total number of deaths in the country to 8,253.
The latest single-day death toll is the lowest since May 7, 2020, when health authorities recorded 13 deaths. On May 6, the daily Covid-19 death toll was 3.
The country also logged a total of 539,975 coronavirus cases with 404 people testing positive over the past 24 hours.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) revealed the latest figures on Covid-19 in the country through a press release on Friday.
The daily test positivity rate stands at 2.82%.
As many as 14,328 samples, including the pending ones, were tested at 210 authorized labs — government and private — across the country.
The overall infection rate of the country stands at 14.13%.
Of the five deceased – four men and one women – four were from Dhaka division and one from Chittagong division.
All the victims died at different hospitals across the country.
So far, 6,252men (75.75%) and 2,001 women (24.25%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 4,603 people have died in Dhaka division, 1,515 in Chittagong, 470 in Rajshahi, 556 in Khulna, 249 in Barisal, 308 in Sylhet, 359 in Rangpur, and 193 in Mymensingh.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.53%.
The health authorities said 422 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours. So far, 486,393 patients – 90.08% – have made full recoveries across the country.
Currently, 10,092 people are in isolation and 32,963 are quarantined.
Meanwhile, health authorities had inoculated 542,309 people against Covid-19 as of Thursday.
In addition, 1,328,436 people had registered to get the vaccine as of 2:30pm on Friday.
On March 8, health authorities in Bangladesh reported the first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a new coronavirus strain which was later named Sars-CoV-2.
The novel coronavirus broke out in China’s Wuhan city in late December, 2019 and quickly spread throughout the world, becoming a pandemic in less than three months.
Global situation
The fast spreading coronavirus has claimed 2,380,471 lives and infected 108,358,209 people across the world till Friday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
As many as 80,409,652 people have recovered from Covid-19, which has spread to 219 countries and territories across the planet.
Bangladesh registered 5 deaths from Covid-19 in the 24 hours to Friday morning, taking the total number of deaths in the country to 8,253.
The latest single-day death toll is the lowest since May 7, 2020, when health authorities recorded 13 deaths. On May 6, the daily Covid-19 death toll was 3.
The country also logged a total of 539,975 coronavirus cases with 404 people testing positive over the past 24 hours.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) revealed the latest figures on Covid-19 in the country through a press release on Friday.
The daily test positivity rate stands at 2.82%.
As many as 14,328 samples, including the pending ones, were tested at 210 authorized labs — government and private — across the country.
The overall infection rate of the country stands at 14.13%.
Of the five deceased – four men and one women – four were from Dhaka division and one from Chittagong division.
All the victims died at different hospitals across the country.
So far, 6,252men (75.75%) and 2,001 women (24.25%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 4,603 people have died in Dhaka division, 1,515 in Chittagong, 470 in Rajshahi, 556 in Khulna, 249 in Barisal, 308 in Sylhet, 359 in Rangpur, and 193 in Mymensingh.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.53%.
The health authorities said 422 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours. So far, 486,393 patients – 90.08% – have made full recoveries across the country.
Currently, 10,092 people are in isolation and 32,963 are quarantined.
Meanwhile, health authorities had inoculated 542,309 people against Covid-19 as of Thursday.
In addition, 1,328,436 people had registered to get the vaccine as of 2:30pm on Friday.
On March 8, health authorities in Bangladesh reported the first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a new coronavirus strain which was later named Sars-CoV-2.
The novel coronavirus broke out in China’s Wuhan city in late December, 2019 and quickly spread throughout the world, becoming a pandemic in less than three months.
Global situation
The fast spreading coronavirus has claimed 2,380,471 lives and infected 108,358,209 people across the world till Friday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
As many as 80,409,652 people have recovered from Covid-19, which has spread to 219 countries and territories across the planet.
