News Desk :
As hospitals in Dhaka and many other cities run out of beds, Covid-19 infected people forced to find ways to get treatment at home.
Hospitals in Dhaka are turning back patients to due lack of both general and ICU beds, according to the families of patients.
On Friday, Bangladesh registered 212 new deaths from the COVID-19 illness in a day, taking the toll to 20,467, reports bdnews24.com.
The caseload climbed to 1,240,115 after 13,862 people tested positive for the disease until 8 am Friday, according to the latest government data.
Dhaka registered the most daily deaths among the eight divisions, logging 65
fatalities, followed by Chattogram with 53 and Khulna with 36.
In terms of daily cases, Dhaka division tallied 5,059 infections in the past 24 hours, followed by Chattogram with 4,021 and Rangpur with 954.
Nationwide, another 13,975 people recovered from the illness, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1,064,195.
As many as 45,044 samples were tested across the country, for a positivity rate of 30.77 percent. The latest figures put the recovery rate at 85.81 percent and the mortality rate at 1.65 percent.
Globally, over 196.74 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 4.2 million have died, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.
