News Desk :
Bangladesh registered 203 more deaths from the deadly coronavirus while another 12,198 people contracted it in 24 hours till Tuesday morning.
The new numbers took the death tally to 16,842 and the caseload to 10,47,155, according to a handout issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The fresh cases were detected after testing 41,755 samples during the period, pushing up the case positivity rate to 29.21%.
As of July 13, 2,339 people lost battle to Covid-19. However,the case fatality rate remained unchanged at 1.61% during the 24-hour period.
Dhaka division reported 61 deaths, the highest among the eight divisions, followed by Khulna with 53 deaths.
Thirty patients died in Chittagong division, 27 in Rajshahi, 15 in Rangpur, seven in Mymensingh and five each in Barisal and Sylhet. The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.61%.
On Tuesday, 350 people received their second dose of the Oxford-Astrazeneca Covid-19 vaccine, taking the total number of fully vaccinated people to 4,295,568. Meanwhile, a little over 1.5 million people have only received the first dose of the vaccine and are awaiting the second one.
Additionally, another 62,113 people received the first dose of the Sinopharm vaccine, taking the total to 268,253. As many as 2,259 people have received the second dose so far.
Meanwhile, 7,510 people were administered the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine, taking the total to 29,852.
On March 8, 2020, the health authorities in Bangladesh reported the first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a new coronavirus strain which was later named Sars-CoV-2.
The coronavirus disease broke out in China’s Wuhan city in late December 2019 and quickly spread throughout the world, turning into a pandemic in less than three months.
The fast-spreading coronavirus has claimed 4,058,095 lives and infected 188,210,453 people across the world as of Tuesday afternoon, according to Worldometer, a reference website that provides counters and real-time statistics for diverse topics.
As many as 172,100,997 people have recovered from Covid-19, which has affected 222 countries and territories across the planet.
