Staff Reporter :
Bangladesh has recorded its highest daily coronavirus cases since the pandemic began – a day after it registers record deaths from Covid-19 in a 24-hour period.
Its health ministry said 8,364 people had infected with the virus within the past 24 hours till 8am Monday.
Dhaka logged the highest daily Covid tally, registering 3,998 new cases. Khulna saw 1,464 cases, followed by Rajshahi at 883 and Chattogram at 811.
Besides, the country’s total Covid-19 caseloads reach 896,770 with the record number of new infections. It also registered 104 deaths from COVID-19 in a day, taking the total death toll from the disease to 14,276, according to a press release of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) issued on Monday.
Of the 104 deceased – 68 men and 36 women – 82 patients died in government hospitals, 15 in private hospitals, and seven at home.
The newest hotspot Khulna reported 35 fatalities, the most among the eight divisions, followed by Dhaka and Chittagong with 27 and 19 deaths respectively.
Rangpur division counted nine deaths while Rajshahi logged seven deaths, Mymensingh five, and Barisal two.
Fifty-eight of the deceased patients were aged above 60, 23 aged between 51 and 60, 14 aged between 41 and 50, four aged between 31 and 40, and five in 21-30 age group.
So far, 10,186 men (71.35%) and 4,090 women (28.65%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 7,540 people have died in Dhaka division, 2,711 in Chittagong, 990 in Rajshahi, 1,200 in Khulna, 418 in Barisal, 523 in Sylhet, 587 in Rangpur, and 307 in Mymensingh.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.59 per cent.
Meanwhile, another 3,570 people recovered from the illness in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of recoveries to 807,673.
The recovery rate is 90.06 per cent.
Currently, 42,568 people are in isolation and 62,676 are quarantined.
Besides, as many as 35,059 samples were tested across the country in the last 24 hours, yielding the positivity rate of 23.86 per cent.
Bangladesh has seen a renewed surge in coronavirus infections and deaths, particularly in the border districts, in June due to the community transmission of the Delta variant of the coronavirus, first found in neighbouring India.
Hospitals in frontier districts are now battling to treat patients amid a chronic shortage of beds and medical oxygen.
In an effort to fight a rising wave of infections across the country, the government has further tightened health restrictions from Jun 28 to Jul 1.
Globally, over 181.13 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 3.92 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.
