Covid-19: Bangladesh records 78 more deaths, 3,031 new cases

Bangladesh has registered 3,031 new Covid-19 cases, taking the tally so far to 751,659.

The death toll climbed to 11,228 after 78 fatalities were recorded in a 24-hour time frame until Tuesday morning, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said in a press release.

Another 5,234 patients recovered from Covid-19 through treatment at home and in hospital care, bringing the total recovery count to 666,927.

The seven-day moving average of deaths on Tuesday went further down to 91.43, while the day's test positivity rate also decreased to 12.51%.

Of the 78 deceased, 45 were male and 33 were female. Seventy-six died in different hospitals across the country, and two died at home.

Fifty of the Covid-19 victims died in Dhaka, 10 in Chittagong, six in Rajshahi and Khulna divisions, three in Sylhet, two in Mymensingh, and one in Barisal divisions.

Fifty-three of the deceased were aged above 60. Fifteen of them were between the age range 51-60, seven between 41-50, and three between 31-40.

Till now, 8,226 (73.26%) men and 3,002 women (26.74%) lost their lives to the virus.

The mortality rate is 1.49%, the overall infection rate stands at 13.93%, and the recovery rate at 88.73%.

A total 24,237 tests were conducted over the last 24 hours and additionally, 24,509 samples were collected in the same period.

On March 8, health authorities in Bangladesh reported the first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a new coronavirus strain named Sars-CoV-2. The country recorded its first fatality on March 18.

The novel coronavirus broke out in China's Wuhan city in late December 2019 and quickly spread throughout the world, becoming a pandemic in less than three months.

The fast-spreading coronavirus has claimed more than 3,136,000 lives and infected at least 148,569,000 people across the world till Tuesday afternoon, according to worldometer.

As many as 126,365,000 people have recovered from Covid-19, which has spread to 220 countries and territories across the planet.