News Desk :
Bangladesh has again recorded its highest daily Covid-19 death toll as well as highest number of single-day cases amid a deteriorating pandemic situation in the country.
The country registered 230 new deaths from Covid-19 in a day, taking the total toll to 16,419. The Covid-19 caseload surged to 1,021,189 after 11,874 people tested positive for the disease until 8 am Sunday, according to the latest figures by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Khulna, a recent hotspot, tallied 66 fatalities in the past 24 hours, the most among the eight divisions in the country. Dhaka was a close second with 56 deaths, followed by Chattogram with 39, Rajshahi with 26 and Rangpur with 22.
Dhaka logged the highest daily cases among the eight divisions with 4,961. Khulna saw 1,591, Chattogram 1,553, and Rajshahi 1,153.
Nationwide, another 6,362 people recovered from the illness, bringing the total number of recoveries to 874,501.
As many as 40,015 samples were tested across the country, for a positivity rate of 29.67 percent. The latest figures put the recovery rate at 85.64 percent and the mortality rate at 1.61 percent.
Vaccination
On Sunday, 356 people received a second dose of Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine, taking the total to nearly 4.295 million. Meanwhile, a little over 1.525 million people received the first dose of the vaccine and are awaiting the second dose.
Additionally, 38,837 people received the first dose of Sinopharm vaccine during the same period, taking the total to 162,513 till now, while 2,237 people received the second dose till Sunday.
Meanwhile, 5,925 people were administered with the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine, taking the total to 15,698.
Bangladesh is currently facing a renewed surge in Covid-19 cases and deaths, prompting the government to impose its harshest lockdown yet.
After record infections and deaths in April, June was the second cruellest month for Bangladesh since the coronavirus pandemic struck the country in March 2020.
The health authorities in Bangladesh reported the first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a strain of coronavirus named Sars-CoV-2, on March 8, 2020.
