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Covid: Daily infection rate at 0.58%

Staff Correspondent
30 Apr 2022 17:32:59 | Update: 30 Apr 2022 19:01:54
Covid: Daily infection rate at 0.58%
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Bangladesh on Saturday registered 17 fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours while the daily infection rate fell slightly to 0.58 per cent.

The country recorded zero death over the same period, keeping the tally to 29,127.

On Friday, the positivity rate stood at 0.63 per cent.

With the fresh infections, the total caseload reached 19,52,691, according to the daily virus update by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) released on Thursday afternoon.

Health authorities reported the latest figures after testing 2,938 samples at 879 laboratories across the country.

Bangladesh has so far tested 1,39,90,466 samples.

Meanwhile, 258 patients recovered from the deadly infection in the last 24 hours, raising the overall recovery to 18,95,404.

Bangladesh reported its first cases on March 8, 2020, and the first coronavirus-related death on March 18 of the same year.

The daily case positivity rate reached its peak at 33.37 per cent on January 28 this year.

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