Khulna div registers another 40 Covid deaths, 880 cases

UNB :
Covid claimed 40 more lives and infected 880 people in Khulna division in the past 24 hours, health officials said on Sunday.
According to the health director’s office, 16 people died in Kushtia, five each in Khulna, and Jhenaidah, seven in Jashore, three in Bagerhat, two each in Narail and Chuadanga districts.
Khulna district has registered the lowest deaths in the past one and half months on Sunday with five deaths, said officials.
Besides, some 880 new Covid infections have been detected in 10 districts of the division in the past 24 hours, pushing up the total cases to 93, 812.
Similarly, the total death toll in the division has now reached 2,428, said the officials. In Khulna division, the first case of Covid-19 was detected in Chuadanga on March 19, 2020.
Meanwhile, the country has registered 231 new deaths from Covid-19 in a day, taking the total toll to 20,916.
The Covid-19 caseload surged to 1,264,328 after 14,844 people tested positive for the disease until 8 am Sunday, according to the latest government data.
Dhaka registered the most daily deaths and new cases among the eight divisions, logging 77 fatalities and 8,355 infections. Chattogram tallied 53 deaths and 1,850 cases, Khulna 44 deaths and 880 cases. Sylhet, which registered nine deaths, saw a spike in cases, reporting 996 new infections.
Nationwide, another 15,054 people recovered from the illness, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1,093,266.
As many as 49,529 samples were tested across the country, for a positivity rate of 29.97 percent. The latest figures put the recovery rate at 86.47 percent and the mortality rate at 1.65 percent.
Globally, over 197.97 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 4.22 million have died, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.