Zero death from Covid brings relief for Bangladesh

Online Desk :

Confronting a tumultuous time since reporting its first death from Coronavirus on March 8, 2020 followed by the wrath unleashed by delta variant in 2021, Bangladesh finally reported zero death from the deadly virus in 24 hours till Saturday morning.

The country, however, logged 178 more infections during the 24-hour period.

Bangladesh recorded its first Covid cases on March 8 and the first death on March 18 of the last year.

The daily case positivity rate has declined to 1.18 per cent today from Friday’s 1.4o per cent, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

With the fresh numbers, the total fatalities rose to 27,946 while the caseload mounted to 1,573,889.

However, the mortality rate remained static at 1.78 per cent.

The fresh cases were detected after testing 15,107 samples, the DGHS added.

Besides, the recovery rate remained the same as 97.72 per cent with the recovery of 190 more patients during the 24-hour period.