Bangladesh reports 30 more Covid deaths, 1,272 new cases

Bangladesh reported 30 more deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the total death count to 12,211. 

During this period, the fatality rate was 1.56%, according to the data provided by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Meanwhile, 1,272 more people were infected with Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, which took the case count to 7,82,129.

In the preceding 24 hours, the positivity rate was recorded at 7.55% after testing 16,855 samples in 466 labs across the country. 

Among the latest day's victims, 16 were women, and 14 were men. Of them, 28 died in different hospitals across the country while two at home. 

Moreover, 15 of the deceased hailed from the Dhaka Division, eight from Chattogram, two each from Rajshahi, Sylhet and Mymensingh and one Ranpur division.

Also, 1,115 patients were declared free of Covid-19 during the last 24 hours, with a 92.59% recovery rate.

The Covid-19 victims' gender breakdown shows that 8,834 of the total deceased across the country were men and 3,377 were women.

The country's maiden cases were reported on 8 March last year and the first death from the virus was reported on 18 March.

India registered 263,533 cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the last 24 hours, taking the country's infection tally past the 25 million mark to 25,228,996 , the Union ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) dashboard showed on Tuesday morning.

Also, in this period, 4,329 lives were lost to the viral disease, taking the death toll to 278,719, the dashboard further showed, reports Hindustan Times.

Covid-19 has claimed 3,405,682 lives worldwide and infected 164,305,625 so far, according to the data provided by Worldometer.