News Desk :
Bangladesh has registered 85 new fatalities from COVID-19, the most in a day since Apr 29.
Khulna, a recent virus hotspot, saw 36 deaths, the most among the eight divisions. Dhaka saw 19 deaths and Rajshahi saw 18.
That brings the death toll to 13,787 as of 8 am on Wednesday, according to the latest virus data released by the government, reports bdnews24.com.
The tally of infections surged to 866,877 after an additional 5,727 COVID cases were reported in the same period. It was the highest daily count since Apr 13.
Dhaka reported 2,695 new cases, the most among the eight divisions, followed by Khulna with 903 and Rajshahi with 847. Cases also rose in Chattogram, which saw 677 new cases.
Nationwide, another 3,168 people recovered from the illness, bringing the total number of recoveries to 791,553.
As many as 28,256 samples were tested across the country, for a positivity rate of 20.27 percent.
The latest figures put the recovery rate at 91.31 percent and the mortality rate at 1.59 percent.
Globally, over 179.17 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 3.88 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.
Bangladesh’s coronavirus deaths yesterday claimed the tally of infections has surged to 8,66,877 as 5,727 new cases were confirmed in the last 24 hours ,” Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said in its routine daily statement, reports BSS.
It said 20.27 percent of the 28,256 samples collected in 24 hours were tested positive while the infection rate was only 2.30 percent just on February 8 this year as during the late winter season, the rate started decreasing sharply.
The samples were tested at 554 authorized medical laboratories across the country during the time as the government put in efforts to increase the number of testing centers gradually with resurgence of the pandemic.
The recovery count rose to 7,91,553 after another 3,168 patients were discharged from the hospitals during the past one day.
The DGHS statistics showed of the people infected from the beginning, 91.31 percent recovered, while 1.59 percent died.
It said 36 out of the 85 people died in Khulna division alone and 55 of them were male while 30 were female and added that 10 are in their 30s, 11 in their 40s, 18 in their 50s and 46 are above 60 years.
Bangladesh recorded the highest number of COVID-19 fatality on April 19 this year when the virus killed 112 people in a day.
The DGHS said Bangladesh’s COVID-19 confirmed cases crossed 5,000 mark on March 29, 2021 and 6,000 mark on April 1, 2021 while it surpassed 7,000 mark on April 4, 2021.
The country recorded 7,626 COVID-19 cases on April 7 this year, the highest daily spike since the outbreak of the pandemic, it added.
According to month-wise statistics last year, 51 COVID-19 positive cases were detected in March 2020, 7616 in April, 39,486 in May, 98,330 in June, 92,178 in July, 75,335 in August, 50,483 in September, 44, 205 in October, 57,248 in November and 48,578 in December.
The beginning of the current year witnessed a drastic fall of coronavirus cases in the country but the trend lasted for only two months – 21,629 cases were detected in January and 11,077 in February.
After the drastic fall of COVID-19 confirmed cases, the country witnessed sharp increase of infection as 65,079 cases were reported in March, 2021 and 1,47,837 cases in April.
According to month-wise statistics last year, five COVID-19 deaths were reported in March, 2020, 163 in April, 482 in May, 1,197 in June, 1,264 in July, 1,179 in August, 970 in September, 672 in October, 721 in November and 915 in December.
Month-wise data of the current year, 568 coronavirus fatalities were recorded in January, 2021, 281 in February, 638 in March and 2,404 in April, the DGHS sources said.
The DGHS said among the total 13,787 fatalities, 7,434 deaths occurred in Dhaka division, 2,620 in Chattogram, 916 in Rajshahi, 1,068 in Khulna, 410 in Barishal, 506 in Sylhet, 548 in Rangpur and 289 in Mymensingh division.
The DGHS said in order to make treatment facilities easily available for
the COVID-19 patients, the government has introduced telemedicine services comprising 100 physicians for round the clock in the country.
It added that 2,85,93,904 people received healthcare services from hotline mobile numbers and health web portals as the government formed a group of medical professionals to provide emergency healthcare services.
To receive information and treatment facilities on COVID-19, the contact hotline and mobile numbers are 16263; 333; 10655 and 01944333222.
As of June 23, 2021, 11.59 GMT, 3,899,863 people have died so far from the COVID-19 outbreak and there are currently 180,002,306 confirmed cases in 212 countries and territories, according to Worldometer, a reference website that provides counters and real-time statistics for diverse topics.
China was the world’s first country which on January 11, 2020 reported the first death from the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, the capital of Central China’s Hubei province.
