News Desk :
Bangladesh has reported 153 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths, the highest number in a single day since its first detection on March 8 last year while it recorded 8,661 fresh cases during the same period, the second highest in a day.
The daily health update of the Directorate General of Health Services came up with the statistics on Sunday.
“A total of 153 Coronavirus patients died in the last 24 hours increasing the death toll from the virus to 15,065. The total cases of infection have surged to 944,917 as 8,661 new cases were confirmed during the period,” said the DGHS.
The country reported 28.99 percent COVID-19 positive cases, the highest in a single day as 29,879 samples were tested in the past 24 hours while the second highest positivity rate was 28.27 on July 2, it added.
The official tally showed the virus killed 15,065 people and infected 9,44,917 so far, it added.
The recovery count rose to 8,33,897 after another 4,698 patients were discharged from the hospitals during the past one day.
The DGHS statistics showed of the people infected from the beginning 88.25 percent recovered, while 1.59 percent died.
Bangladesh is currently facing a renewed surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths, prompting the government to impose its harshest lockdown yet.
After record infections and deaths in April, June was the second cruellest month for Bangladesh since the coronavirus pandemic struck the country in March 2020.
Globally, over 183.56 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 3.97 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.
UNB adds: Bangladesh once again shattered all the previous records of single-day deaths reporting 154 fatalities in 24 hours till Sunday morning, pushing up the death toll to 15,065.
With this, the daily-death record was shattered thrice within eight days as 143 deaths were reported on July1 and 119 deaths on June 27.
During the period, 8,661 more Covid cases were detected after testing 29,879 samples, overwhelming the country’s healthcare system quickly.
This raises the country’s case positivity rate during the period to 28.99% from Saturday’s 27.39%, according to a handout provided by Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
With the fresh cases, Bangladesh’s caseload now mounted to 944,917 on Sunday.
