News Desk :
Bangladesh is seeing a continuous rise in Covid-19 cases as 2,458 more infections along with two more deaths were reported in 24 hours till Tuesday morning.
With the fresh cases reported after testing 27,709 samples, the daily positivity rate jumped again to 8.97 per cent from Monday’s 8.53 per cent during the period, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The country last logged 2,588 cases on September 9, last year along with 58 deaths in 24 hours, reports UNB.
Bangladesh is currently seeing a surge of Covid-19 cases as health authorities logged 10,392 infections in the last 10 days since January 1.
The fresh numbers took the country’s total fatalities to 28,107 while the caseload mounted to 15, 98, 389 on Tuesday.
The mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.76 per cent during the period.
The recovery rate kept declining to 97.06 per cent with the recovery of 274 more patients during the 24-hour period.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh’s total tally of Omicron cases reached 30 with detection of nine more cases on Monday, according to GISAID, a global initiative on sharing all influenza data.
On December 9 last year, Bangladesh again logged zero Covid-related death after nearly three weeks as the pandemic was apparently showing signs of easing.
The country reported this year’s first zero Covid-related death in a single day on November 20 last year along with 178 infections since the pandemic broke out in Bangladesh in March 2020.
Bangladesh logged the highest number of daily fatalities of 264 on August 10 last year, while the highest daily caseload was 16,230 on July 28 last year.
On Monday, the government has imposed restrictions on public movement and other activities like operating public transport at their half capacities as well as ensuring safety protocols after observing the outbreak of Omicron variant of Coronavirus and the overall Covid situation in the country.
This restriction will take effect on January 13 and will remain in force until further notice.
bdnews24.com adds: Bangladesh has reported 2,458 new coronavirus cases, the highest daily count since Sept 9, taking the total caseload to 1,598,389.
The death toll increased to 28,107 as two more patients died from COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8 am on Tuesday, according to the latest government data.
Among the eight divisions, Dhaka recorded the highest number of cases with 1,979 infections.
Another 274 people recovered from the illness nationwide, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1,551,387.
As many as 27,399 samples were tested across the country, for a positivity rate of 8.97 percent.
The latest figures put the recovery rate at 97.06 percent and the mortality rate at 1.76 percent.
Globally, over 310.58 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 5.49 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.
