Staff Reporter :
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, the death rate being 1.28 percent,” Professor Dr Nasima Sultana, Additional Director General (Administration) of the DGHS, said in a press briefing.
In total 3,034 people tested corona positive in the same period, while the total number of infections in the country moved to 1,99,357, Dr. Sultana said.
Bangladesh is now near to 2,00,000 officially confirmed cases. Till date over a million Covid-19 tests were 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, while the infection rate is 22.54 percent.
The total infection rate now stands at 19.8 percent.
The DGHS said that 10,06,791 samples had so far been tested in the country, with 1,762 Covid-19 patients recovering in the last 24 hours.
According to the briefing, the total number of recoveries stands at 1,08,725 and the recovery rate is 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 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.
Of the deceased, one was between 21-30 years, 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.
