Bangladesh reports 1,970 fresh cases

Bangladesh today reported 1,970 Covid-19 cases while the Coronavirus claimed overnight 30 lives. “The tally of infections has surged to 8,12,960 as 1,970 new cases were confirmed in the last 24 hours .  30 people died of Covid-19 during the period,” Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said in its routine daily statement.

A total of 30 Covid-19 patients died in the last 24 hours increasing the death toll from the pandemic to 12,869.

It said 11.47 percent of the 17,169 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 510 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 7,53,240 after another 1,918 patients were discharged from the hospitals during the past one day. The DGHS statistics showed of the people infected from the beginning, 92.65 percent recovered, while 1.58 percent died.

30 deaths from Covid-19