Staff Reporter: Nine more died of coronavirus infection while 306 people have tested positive of the virus in the last 24 hours, IEDCR said on Saturday.
The death toll now stands at 84, while the total number of infected has reached 2,144, said Dr Meerjady Sabrina Flora, Director, Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), said in an online press briefing in Dhaka.
She said eight more people made recovery from the infection in the same period. So far, the total number of recovery is 66, she added.
Of the deceased, four were above 61 years old, one was between 51-60, three between 41-50 and the age of another could not be known, Dr Sabrina said.
The Director said also that among the newly infected, 32 percent are from Dhaka city.
In the last 24 hours, she said, 2,114 samples were tested across the country.
Professor Sabrina said that 564 people are taking treatments in hospitals across the country.
“Eleven of the patients are in ICUs,” she said.
“Seventy percent of the 306 newly-infected patients are male while the rest are female,” she added.
Of the nine deceased, six are from Dhaka, two from Narayanganj and one was from Savar.
“Most of the infected people are in Dhaka, 32 percent of them got affected in the past 24 hours.
Gazipur is seeing the higher number of infections followed by Narshingdi and Kishoreganj,” the Director said.
Meanwhile, Professor Dr Nasima Sultana, Additional Director General (administration) of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said that there are 19 PCR laboratories active in Covid-19 testing across the country currently including the one in Jashore University of Science and Technology.
