Covid-19 claim 38 lives, infects 1,907 in country

UNB :
Bangladesh logged 38 more Covid-19 deaths and 1,907 fresh cases in 24 hours till Friday morning.
The daily case positivity rate increased to 6.41 per cent on Friday, a slight rise from Thursday’s 5.98 per cent, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The new cases were detected after testing 30,169 samples during the period.
Meanwhile, the fatality rate remained static at 1.76 per cent, said the DGHS. The fresh numbers pushed the country’s Covid death tally to 27,147 while the caseload mounted to 15,40,110. The recovery rate rose to 97.20 per cent with the recovery of 2,919 more patients during the 24-hour period. On Tuesday, the country recorded 35 deaths, the lowest in around three months.
However, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that the daily case positivity rate should remain at 5 per cent or below for 14 days before mass unlocking.
BSS adds: Bangladesh on Friday reported 1,907 Covid-19 cases while the coronavirus claimed overnight 38 lives.
“The country reported 6.41 percent Covid-19 positive cases as 29,756 samples were tested in the past 24 hours,” Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said in its routine daily statement.
In the past 24 hours, the combined figure of coronavirus in Dhaka city and upazilas of Dhaka district is 1201 while nine Covid-19 deaths were reported during the same period. The official tally showed the virus killed 27,109 people and infected 15,40,110 so far, it added.
The recovery count rose to 14,97,009 after another 2,919 patients were discharged from the hospitals during the past one day.
The DGHS statistics showed of the people infected from the beginning 97.20 percent recovered, while 1.76 percent died.
The DGHS said among the total 27,147 fatalities, 11,813 deaths occurred in Dhaka division, 5,494 in Chattogram, 2005 in Rajshahi, 3,524 in Khulna, 928 in Barishal, 1,226 in Sylhet, 1,336 in Rangpur and 821 in Mymensingh division.