Staff Reporter :
Bangladesh recorded 67 more deaths from Covid-19– highest in one and a half months– between 8am Friday and 8am Saturday amid worsening situation of the coronavirus in the country.
Besides, the number of detected novel coronavirus cases in the country rose to 848,027 as 3,057 more cases were reported, after testing 16,947 samples, including rapid antigen tests, in the last 24 hours, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The rate of detection in the last 24 hours until 8:00am was 18.02 per cent.
The health directorate said a total of 1,725 people recovered from the highly infectious disease in last 24 hours taking the tally of recovered people to 780,146.
DGHS data showed that 67 deaths were recorded in 24 hours since May 2, when 69 fatalities were recorded.
Of the fresh 67 deceased – 34 men and 33 women, 14 died in Dhaka Division, 11 in Chittagong, eight each in Rajshahi and Rangpur, 24 in Khulna, one each in Sylhet and Mymensingh.
All of them died either at state-run hospitals or private hospitals around the country.
So far, a total of 9,657 men and 3,809 women have died in Bangladesh from Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a new coronavirus strain later named Sars-CoV-2.
The highest number of single-day Covid-19 deaths — 112 — was recorded on April 19 this year and the highest number of cases in a day — 7,626 — was recorded on April 7.
Meanwhile, the overall Covid-19 infection rate stood at 13.45%, based on results of 6,305,503 tests conducted nationwide so far.
The DGHS statistics showed that of the total people infected since March last year, 92% have recovered and 1.59% died.
Bangladesh detected its first coronavirus patient on 8 March last year and recorded its first death in the disease on 18 March that year.
Covid-19 had broken out in China’s Wuhan city in late December of 2019 and quickly spread throughout the world, becoming a global pandemic in less than three months.
The world’s first death from the disease was also recorded in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, on January 11, 2020.
Since then, until Saturday afternoon, the fast-spreading virus claimed more than 3,868,300 lives and infected over 178,659,500 people across the world, according to worldometer.
At the same time, more than 163,177,000 people have also recovered so far from Covid-19.
