The country on Friday registered 51 deaths from coronavirus in the last 24 hours according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
“With the new figures the death toll now stands at 2,547 and the death rate at 1.28 percent,” Professor Dr Nasima Sultana, Additional Director General (Administration) of the DGHS, said in a press briefing.
She said also that 3,034 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in the same span.
Including the new cases the total number of infections in the country is 1,99,357, Dr. Sultana added.
Bangladesh on Friday inched closer to 2,00,000 officially confirmed cases with just over a million Covid-19 tests carried out since March,– which shows that about one in every five tests had turned out to be positive.
The DGHS official said that 13,460 samples were tested in 80 authorised laboratories across the country in the last 24 hours while the infection rate is 22.54 percent and the total infection rate stands at 19.8 percent.
The DGHS said that 10,06,791 samples have so far been tested in the country.
Besides, 1,762 Covid-19 patients have recovered in the last 24 hours Dr. Sultana said.
According to the briefing, the total number of recoveries stands at 1,08,725 and the recovery rate at 54.54 percent now.
She said that 812 more people were put under isolation in the same period.
The DGHS official said that among the deceased, 40 were males and 11 were females.
Of them 16 were from Chattogram, 13 were from Dhaka, six from Khulna, six from Barishal, four from Rangpur, three from Rajshahi and another three from Sylhet division.
Dr. Sultana said that among them, one was between 21-30 years old, three between 31-40, seven between 41-50, 15 between 51-60, 12 between 61-70, 11 between 71-80 and two were from 81-90 years old.
Bangladesh reported its first coronavirus infection on March 8 and first death on March 18.
The country is the 17th worst affected country in the world in respect of infections’ number.
