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The Directorate General of Health Services has said that Bangladesh’s overall Covid-19 positivity rate has dropped below 15 per cent after 70 days.
In its daily press statement, DGHS said the positivity rate fell to 14.76 per cent after testing 36,789 samples at 788 laboratories in 24 hours till 8am on Wednesday.
The country recorded 114 new Covid deaths and 4,966 infections over the same period, the statement added.
The overall caseload now stands at 14,77,930 and total fatalities at 25,627, since the country first identified Covid patient on March 8, 2020.
Meanwhile, 7, 808 patients recovered in the last 24-hours, raising the overall recovery to 13,89,571.
Among the fresh fatalities, 62 were males and 52 were females.
Dhaka division was the worst-hit region logging 34 deaths, followed by 29 in Chattogram, 13 in Khulna and Rajshahi each, 9 in Sylhet, 6 in each Rangpur and Mymensingh and 4 in Barishal.
Second dose of Covid mass vaccination campaign to start Sept 7
DGHS Director General ABM Khurshid Alam on Wednesday announced that vaccine recipients under the mass vaccination campaign will receive their second and final dose from September 7.
“More vaccines will arrive before the start of second dose campaign. So, there will be no problem in arranging the second dose,” he said at a programme at Central Medical Stores Depot (CMSD) in Dhaka.
Bangladeshi expatriates living in the US have sent 562 portable ICU ventilators in two shipments to aid their homeland’s fight against the pandemic.
Dr ABM Abdullah, personal physician to the prime minister, received the ventilators at the airport and later attended the event at the CMSD.
“The shipment of ventilators was overseen by nephrologist Dr Ziauddin Ahmed Sadek, cardiologist Dr Masudul Hasan, former senior UN official Mahmud Ush Shams Chowdhury and cardiologist Dr Chowdhury Hafiz Ahsan, all of whom reside in the US, and Dr Arifur Rahman, who lives in Canada,” Dr Abdullah said.
