Coronavirus. COURTESY
Bangladesh Sunday reported 2,436 COVID-19 cases while the coronavirus claimed overnight 47 lives. A total of 47 Covid-19 patients died in the last 24 hours increasing the death toll from the pandemic to 13,118.
It said 12.99 percent of the 18,749 samples collected in 24 hours were tested positive while the infection rate was only 2.30 percent just on February 8 this year as during the late winter season, the rate started decreasing sharply.
The samples were tested at 512 authorized medical laboratories across the country during the time as the government put in efforts to increase the number of testing centers gradually with resurgence of the pandemic.
The recovery count rose to 7,66,266 after another 2,242 patients were discharged from the hospitals during the past one day. The DGHS statistics showed of the people infected from the beginning, 92.66 percent recovered, while 1.59 percent died.
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