UNB :
Bangladesh logged 63 more Coronavirus-related deaths in the last 24 hours until 8am on Thursday as the country is scrambling to manage the 2nd wave of the virus infection.
The new deaths pushed up the number of fatalities to 13,345.
The virus also infected 3,840 people during the period, raising the total caseload to 8,41,087.
The positivity rate slightly declined to 15.44 percent from Wednesday’s 16.62 percent, said a handout issued by the Directorate General of Health Services.
However, the fatality rate remained static at 1.59 % during the period.
The country last recorded 15.07 percent positivity rate on April 21.
The fresh cases were detected after testing 24,871 samples during the period.
As 776,466 people recovered from the virus, the country’s recovery rate now stands at 92.32 percent, which is on the decline for a week.
Bangladesh has registered 63 fatalities in the past 24 hours, the highest daily count since May 3.
This brings the death toll to 13,345, according to the latest government data released on Thursday.
The tally of infections surged to 841,087 after 3,840 new COVID-19 cases were reported in the same period, reports bdnews24.com.
Another 2,714 people recovered from the illness through treatment at home and hospital care during that time, bringing the total to 776,466. Dhaka reported 1,328 new cases in the last 24 hours, the most among the eight divisions in the tally, followed by Khulna with 765 and Rajshahi with 645.
As many as 24,871 samples were tested across the country, yielding a positivity rate of 15.44 percent.
The latest official figures put the recovery rate at 92.32 percent, while the mortality rate stands at 1.59 percent.
Globally, over 177.04 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 3.83 million have died, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.
