Bangladesh health authorities confirmed 34 new coronavirus-related deaths in a 24-hour period until Friday morning, pushing the local death tally to 12,758.
With 1,887 new cases during this period, the country’s caseload soared to 8,07,867.
The infection rate stood at 10.4 per cent as the mortality rate went up to 1.58 per cent, the Directorate General of Health Services said in a press release.
Meanwhile, the recovery rate went up to 92.56 per cent (7,47,758 so far).
Bangladesh reported its first coronavirus cases on March 8 last year and the confirmed the first Covid-19 related death on March 18 that year.
Data released by the government show that the number of recoveries has been going up in recent days.
The government is currently enforcing a nationwide lockdown scheduled to continue until June 6 to tackle the spread of the virus.
A study by the Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research and the Institute for Developing Science and Health Initiatives found that 80 per cent of Covid-19 patients in Bangladesh have the Indian variant, also known as the Delta variant.
Many bordering areas have been put under complete lockdown to prevent the transmission of Covid-19.
Coronavirus cases were first reported in China in December 2019. The virus went on to affect the entire world, putting the global economy into the worst recession since the Great Depression, according to IMF.
The government unveiled its proposed budget for the 2021-22 fiscal year in which Tk 10,000 has been earmarked for emergency requirements to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. The allocation has remained unchanged from the last fiscal.
