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Bangladesh on Tuesday reported 6,028 COVID-19 cases, second highest in a single day since its first detection on March 8 last year while the coronavirus claimed overnight 69 lives.
“The tally of infections has surged to 6,97,985 as 6,028 new cases were confirmed in the last 24 hours . . . 69 people died of COVID-19 during the period,” Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said in its routine daily statement said.
A total of 69 COVID-19 patients died in the last 24 hours, the highest number in over nine months, increasing the death toll from the pandemic to 9,891.
It said 18.29 percent of the 32,955 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 are tested at 255 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 5,85,966 after another 4,853 patients were discharged from the hospitals during the past one day. The DGHS statistics showed of the people infected from the beginning, 83.95 percent recovered, while 1.42 percent died.
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