Deaths fall below 200 after 19 days

Bangladesh registered 197 deaths from Covid-19 in 24 hours to 8am on Friday. With the latest development, the total number of deaths reached 23,810 in the country. During the same period, 8,465 people tested positive for the virus, taking the total number of infections to 1,405,333 in the country, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

As many as 40,641 samples were tested across the country, with a positivity rate of 20.83pc.

On the other hand, another 11,457 patients recovered from the infectious disease across the country, taking the total number of recovery to 1,273,522.

Dhaka logged 3,946 cases, the highest among the divisions followed by Chattogram with 1,829 cases, Khulna with 612, Sylhet with 531, and Rajshahi with 491.

In terms of deaths per division, Dhaka logged the highest with 78 fatalities followed by Chattogram with 53.

Khulna division counted 18 deaths while Mymensingh 12, Barisal 11, and Rangpur nine. Sylhet and Rajshahi counted eight fatalities each.

The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.69pc.

The health authorities in Bangladesh reported the first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a strain of coronavirus named Sars-CoV-2, on March 8, 2020.

The fast spreading coronavirus has claimed more than 4.3 million lives and infected over 206 million people across the world till Friday afternoon, according to Worldometer.

As many as 185.261 million people have recovered from Covid-19, which has spread to 220 countries and territories across the planet.

197 die, 8,465 infected