Staff Reporter :
The country on Thursday recorded 6,469 covid cases in a single day which is its highest-ever daily jump of the deadly disease with 59 deaths, the second highest fatalities in a day since the pandemic broke out in March 8 last year.
The country crossed the 6,000-mark for the first time after starting of the pandemic.
The country the same day witnessed the highest number of deaths in nine months.
The highest number of fatalities in a single day was 64 on June 30 last year.
With the latest figure, the total number of deaths in the country reached 9,105 while the total infections are now 617,764.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said it in a press release on Thursday.
It showed that Thursday’s test positivity rate was 22.94 percent being the highest recorded in the last seven months.
It was August 9 last year that the country recorded 23.12 pc infection rate.
The daily infection rate was observed below five pc for about two months this year, but it started to rise from the second week of March.
It saw a rise on Wednesday as it jumped to 19.9 pc from 18.94 pc the previous day, and that showed that the upward trend of the pandemic.
Of the 59 deceased, 35 were males and 24 females, 40 were from Dhaka division, five each from Chittagong and Sylhet, four from Khulna, two each from Rajshahi and Rangpur, and one from Barisal division.
Among them, 57 died in different hospitals and two at home.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far was 1.47 percent.
The health authorities said 2,539 people recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours.
So far, 544,938 patients – (88.21 percent) have made full recovery across the country.
As many as 28,198 samples, including the pending ones, were tested in the 226 authorized labs across the country.
The overall infection rate of the country stands 13.15 pc.
The data showed that about 11,967 people are in isolation and 38,175 quarantined.
On March 8, last year, health authorities in Bangladesh reported the first three cases of Covid-19.
