News Desk :
Bangladesh has recorded 342 cases of COVID-19 in a daily count, taking the tally of infections to 1,582,710, reports bdnews24.com
The death toll climbed by one to 28,055 in the 24 hours to 8 am on Friday, according to the latest government data.
Dhaka recorded the most cases among the eight divisions, logging 291 infections. Nationwide, another 292 people recovered from the illness, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1,546,956.
As many as 16,913 samples were tested across the country, for a positivity rate of 2.02 percent. The latest figures put the recovery rate at 97.74 percent and the mortality rate at 1.77 percent.
Globally, over 278.17 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 5.38 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.
BSS add: Bangladesh Friday reported 342 Covid-19 cases while the coronavirus claimed overnight one life.
“The country reported 2.02 per cent Covid-19 positive cases as 16,913 samples were tested in the past 24 hours,” Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said in its routine daily statement. In the past 24 hours, the combined figure of Coronavirus in Dhaka city and upazilas of the district is 291 while no Covid-19 death was reported during the period.
The official tally showed that the virus killed 28,055 people and infected 15, 82,710 so far. The recovery count rose to 15, 46,956 after another 292 patients were discharged from the hospitals during the past one day.
From the beginning of the pandemic, 97.74 percent Covid-19 patients recovered among the infected people while 1.77 per cent died, the DGHS statistics showed.
The DGHS said among the total 28,055 fatalities, 12,249 occurred in Dhaka division, 5,688 in Chattogram, 2,059 in Rajshahi, 3,618 in Khulna, 949 in Barishal, 1,273 in Sylhet, 1,372 in Rangpur and 847 in Mymensingh divisions.
