Daily case rate remains below 3pc

The daily Covid-19 test positivity rate in Bangladesh continues to remain below 3% for the tenth consecutive day. According to the daily coronavirus situation update by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Sunday, Bangladesh's Covid-19 test positivity rate dropped to 2.53 in the last 24 hours.

A total of 326 new infections were reported from 12,900 samples tested in the 24 hours till Sunday morning. At the same time, eight people have died across the country from the infection, taking the number of total fatalities to 8,274.

The DGHS update said a total of 13,225 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours for testing at 210 authorized labs across the country. The overall infection rate in the country stands at 14.05% from 3,848,116 tests that have been conducted so far. The total number of identified cases in the country stands at 540,592.

Meanwhile, a total of 462 patients have successfully recovered from the infection across the country, taking the total number of recovered case to 487,229. The country's recovery rate now stands at 90.13%.

Of the new deaths – five males and three females --five were from Dhaka, one each from Rajshahi, Barisal and Mymensingh divisions. All the victims died at hospitals. So far, 6,264 men (75.71%) and 2,010 women (24.29%) have died from Covid-19 across the country. The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected in the country stands at 1.53%.

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

The fast spreading coronavirus had claimed 2,406,517 lives and infected 109,150,018 people across the world till Sunday afternoon, according to Worldometer, a reference website that provides counters and real-time statistics for diverse topics. As many as 81,194,443 people have recovered from Covid-19, which has spread to 219 countries and territories across the planet.

 

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