16 patients died from Covid-19 in the country over the last 24 hours, taking the death toll to 386. Besides, 1,617 more people tested positive, which is the highest single-day record of new infections in Bangladesh, making 26,738 confirmed cases in total.
Additional Director General (Admin) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Dr Nasima Sultana revealed the information at a regular online briefing on Wednesday afternoon.
Dr Nasima mentioned that a total of 11,138 samples were collected and 10,207 tested in the last 24 hours. So far, a total of 2,03,852 samples have been tested in the country.
With 214 new recoveries, a total of 5,207 patients recovered from coronavirus till date.
Among the 16 deceased, 13 were males and 3 females. They belonged to the following age groups: one was aged between 01-10 years, one between 21-30 years, one between 31-40, one aged between 41-50, five between 51-60, four between 61-70, two between 71-80 and one was between 81-90.
12 breathed their last while undergoing treatment at various hospitals while the remaining four died at home.
Under division-wise categorisation of the 16 deceased, seven hailed from the Dhaka division, five from Chittagong, one from Sylhet, and three from the Rangpur division.
Meanwhile, global deaths from the novel coronavirus infection reached 323,285 as of Wednesday morning, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally.
So far, 4,897,492 cases have been confirmed around the world after Covid-19, the disease caused by the new strain of coronavirus, was first reported in China in December last year.
Although cases of new infection keep growing among the infected world population currently, most of them are in mild condition.
Among the currently 2,702,926 infected patients, 2,657,501 are in mild condition, which is 98 percent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 45,425 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only two.
So far, 1,688,564 people have recovered.
