Daily Covid positivity rate rises above 5%

News Desk :
The number of daily Covid cases keeps rising in the country as 19 people tested positive for the virus in the last 24 hours till 8am Wednesday.

Health officials recorded the positivity rate at 5.38% during the same period after testing 885 samples across the country, according to data released by the Directorate General of Health Services, reports media.

The country’s Covid-19 positivity rate was below 5% for more than 5 months from July 2023 to January 9 this year.

According to the World Health Organisation, Covid-19 infections are considered to be under control if a country’s detection rate remains below 5% for more than two consecutive weeks.

Although the infections surged, Bangladesh saw no death from the virus in the last few weeks.

So far, 29,447 people have died of the virus and 20,46,459 tested positive in the country since the outbreak in 2020.

Meanwhile, 14 Covid patients were cured in the last 24 hours taking the recovery rate to 98.41%.