News Desk :
The country has logged 22 fatalities from coronavirus and 849 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24-hour until Monday morning.
Of the 22 deceased – 15 men and seven women – 18 were from Dhaka Division, two from Chittagong, and one each from Sylhet and Rajshahi, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said in a press release.
Of them, 21 died at different hospitals in the country while one died at home.
So far, 5,927 men (75.96%) and 1,876 women (24.04%) have died of Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected currently stands at 1.49%.
Besides, another 917 patients recovered from Covid-19 through treatment at home and in hospital care, bringing the total recovery count to 467,718.
The DGHS said 14,181 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the 24-hour time frame.
As many as 14,097 samples, including some pending ones, were tested at the 193 authorized labs – government and private – across the country.
The latest figures showed a test positivity rate of 6.02%.
To date, 3,371,416 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall test positivity rate of 15.52%.
Up to this point, 467,718 patients – 89.38% of all infected – have recovered from Covid-19 across the country.
On March 8, health authorities in Bangladesh reported the first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a new coronavirus strain which was later named Sars-CoV-2.
The novel coronavirus broke out in China’s Wuhan city in late December, 2019 and quickly spread throughout the world, becoming a pandemic in less than three months.
The fast spreading coronavirus has claimed 1,944,394 lives and infected 90,748,518 people across the world till Monday afternoon, according to Worldometer, a reference website that provides counters and real-time statistics for diverse topics.
As many as 64,892,492 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has affected 220 countries and territories across the planet.
