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Record corona cases again 16,230 infected, 237 dead

 New Nation
 Published: 12:00 AM, 29 July 2021  Updated: 9:21 AM, 27 September 2022
Younger people under-18 are also being brought to covid testing centers as the pandemic spreads. Presently increasing number of childreen are getting infected by Covid-19 Delta variant. NN photo
Younger people under-18 are also being brought to covid testing centers as the pandemic spreads. Presently increasing number of childreen are getting infected by Covid-19 Delta variant. NN photo

Staff Reporter :
Covid-19 death toll crossed the 20,000 mark and the number of infections exceeded 1.2 million in the country on Wednesday.
The Directorate General of Health Services reported that the single day death toll from Covid was 237, and 16,230 were new cases of covid infections in the last 24 hours.
The data revealed during releasing the daily Covid-19 bulletin by the DGHS on Wednesday.
With the latest figure of fatality, the Covid-19 death toll in the country reached 20,016, while the total number of infections reached 1,210,982.
Besides, about 13,470 Covid-19 patients were recovered across the country.
The total number of recovered patients reached 1,035,884.
DGHS data showed that about 53,877 samples were tested at 639 labs around the country between Tuesday and Wednesday.
It showed that 30.12 pc of infection rate was found.
Among the 237 deceased, 149 were men and 88 women.
While one of them was between the age of 91 and 100 years, 15 were between the age of 81 and 90 years, 45 were from the age group of 71-80 years, 78 were from the 61-70 years, 44 were from the 51-60 years, 34 were from the 41-50 age group, 11 were from the 31-40 age group, and nine were from the 21-30 years.
Among the cases, 8,271 were from Dhaka division, 3,303 were from Chittagong division, Rajshahi with 917 and Khulna with 866.
Besides, Dhaka division reported 70 deaths and Chittagong 62 deaths. While, Khulna division counted 34 deaths, Rajshahi 21, Sylhet 18, Rangpur 16, Barisal nine, and Mymensingh seven.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.65 per cent.
DGHS said, about 4,298,086 people were given the first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Meanwhile, about 1.525 million people received the first dose of the vaccine and are awaiting the second dose.
Meanwhile, 181,486 people received the first dose of Sinopharm vaccine in the 24 hours till Wednesday morning, taking the total to 1,666,698, while 5,355 people received the second dose taking the total to 17,424.
Apart from this, 50,235 people have been administered the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine and 288 people got the second dose.
Also, 481,715 people received the first dose of the Moderna vaccine till Wednesday.