News Desk :
Bangladesh’s daily Covid-19 cases reached a new high on Tuesday after the country registered 11,525 infections in the past 24 hours.
According to daily statistics released by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), 11,525 new cases were registered, taking the country’s total to 9,66,406 while the virus-linked death toll reached 15,392, including 163 new fatalities — the second highest single-day toll since the pandemic began last year.
In the last 24 hours until 8:00 (Tuesday), 36,631 samples were tested in labs cross the country. The rate of detection was 31.46 per cent, while the overall rate of detection of infected cases in Bangladesh as of Tuesday stands at 14.22 per cent.
The country has been registering an exponentially high number virus cases in this week, leading to a shortage hospital beds and of medical oxygen.
Daily cases reached 9,964 on Monday, setting a new record in single-day infections.
DGHS said a total of 5,433 people were recovered from the highly infectious disease in the last 24 hours (till 8am Tuesday), taking the number of total recovery to 844,515.
The overall rate of people recovered as of today stands at 87.39 per cent while the rate of death is 1.59 per cent, it added.
Of the people died in the last 24 hours, 98 were male and 65 female. Of the total deaths so far, 10,883 were male (70.71 per cent) and 4,509 female (29.29 per cent).
Among the 163 patients died in the last 24 hours, 155 breathed their last at different hospitals, three were brought dead to hospital while five passed away at their homes.
Among the Covid-19 patients died in that time, 45 were in Dhaka division, 24 in Chattogram, 24 in Rajshahi, 46 in Khulna, 11 in Rangpur, two in Sylhet, six in Barishal and five in Mymensingh divisions.
Among the patients died in Bangladesh so far, 7813 were in Dhaka, 2857 in Chattogram, 1152 in Rajshahi, 1537 in Khulna, 454 in Barisal, 549 in Sylhet, 684 in Rangpur, and 346 in Mymensingh division, the DGHS said.
A total of 38,039 samples were collected in the last 24 hours. As of Tuesday, the number of samples tested in Bangladesh stands at 67,94,113.
Bangladesh detected first coronavirus patient on 8 March last year and recorded its first death in the disease on 18 March that year.
