Covid death toll tops 26,000 in Bangladesh

Bangladesh reported 89 more Covid-19 related deaths and 3,948 fresh infections in a span of 24 hours till 8:00am Sunday.

With the latest figures, the total number of deaths from the deadly infection now stands at 26,015 and the overall caseload at 14,93,537, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

After testing 27,921 samples in 789 laboratories across the country, DGHS found 14.14 per cent positivity in the last 24 hours. The positivity rate went up from Saturday’s 13.67 per cent.

Meanwhile, 6,466 patients recovered from the deadly infection in the last 24-hours, raising the overall recovery to 14,15,697.

Among the fresh fatalities, 41 were males and 48 were females.

Dhaka logged the highest with 27 fatalities in terms of deaths per division, 21 in Chattogram, 10 in Sylhet, nine in Khulna, eight in Barishal, seven in Rajshahi, five in Rangpur and two in Mymensingh.

DGHS director and spokesperson Professor Robed Amin at a virtual health bulletin said that the time to be reluctant was yet to come although infection and casualty rates continue to decrease in Bangladesh.

“Unless causalities and transmission rate go below five per cent for two to three weeks, we cannot call it a ‘stable transmission’,” he said.

“Even after the infection rate goes below five per cent, it cannot be said that a country is free from Covid-19. If we can continue two to three weeks with no new Covid-19 case and death, only then we will be able to say

that Covid-19 is under control,” he added.