The Covid-19 fatalities in Bangladesh rose to 7,329 until early Tuesday with 17 more deaths in the past 24 hours.
The health authorities also reported 1,318 new Covid-19 cases during the period, taking the country’s total caseload to 503,501.
The death rate stood at 1.46%, the Directorate General of Health Services said.
So far, 441,929 patients – 87.77 % – have recovered with 2,235 in the past 24 hours.
Bangladesh reported its first cases on March 8. The infection number reached the 500,000-mark on December 20.
The first death was reported on March 18 and the death toll exceeded 7,000 on December 12.
Until now, 3,106,494 tests have been carried out, including 15,145 new ones. And the overall infection rate stood at 16.21 per cent.
Bangladesh is seeing 2,956.44 infections, 2,594.90 recoveries, and 43.03 deaths per million.
Bangladesh will get Covid-19 vaccines for some 4.5 crore people by May-June next year, Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam said Monday.
“We’ll get three crore doses of vaccine for 1.5 crore people at the end of January or early February next year and six more crore doses for three crore people by May-June,” he told reporters after the Cabinet meeting held at the Secretariat.
The Prime Minister directed to implement the 'No Mask No Service' policy strictly, said the Cabinet Secretary.
