Staff Reporter :
Bangladesh recorded 1,743 new Covid-19 cases in the 24 hours till Saturday morning.
The number of new cases is the lowest in 12 weeks. On June 12, 1,637 people tested positive for the virus, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) revealed the latest figures on Covid-19 in the country with a press release on Saturday.
With the new infections, the total number of cases has risen to 1,512,026.
Besides, the country also registered 61 more deaths from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours – the lowest figure since June 18 when 54 people died from the infectious disease.
The total number of Covid-19 deaths in the country now stands at 26,493 and the death rate stands at 1.75 percent.
In the last 24 hours, 17,750 tests were conducted yielding a test positivity rate of 9.82 per cent. This is first time since June 3 that the infection rate dropped below 10 per cent mark.
A total of 17,750 samples were tested across the country and at least 1,743 new infections were recorded in this period, taking the total number of people infected to 15,12,026, added the release.
During the same period, 3,421 people recovered from the disease taking the total number of recoveries to 1,446,003.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.75 per cent.
Dhaka logged 878 cases, the highest among the eight divisions, followed by Chittagong with 478 cases, Rajshahi with 88, Sylhet with 93, and Khulna with 85.
Of the 61 deceased, 30 were men and 31 women. So far, 17,148 men and 9,345 women have died from Covid-19 across the country.
Dhaka also logged the highest deaths with 32 fatalities, followed by Chittagong with 13.
Khulna division counted six deaths while, Rajshahi four, Barisal and Rangpur two each and Sylhet division and Mymensingh one each.
