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Covid: Daily infection rate ticks up 0.9%

Staff Correspondent
19 Apr 2022 16:26:52 | Update: 19 Apr 2022 17:18:57
Covid: Daily infection rate ticks up 0.9%

Bangladesh on Tuesday registered 50 fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours while the daily infection rate slide up to 0.9 per cent.

The country recorded no deaths over the same period, keeping the tally at 29,126.

On Monday, the positivity rate stood at 0.67 per cent.

With the fresh infections, the total caseload reached 19,52,412, according to the daily virus update by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) released on Tuesday afternoon.

Health authorities reported the latest figures after testing 5,545 samples at 879 laboratories across the country.

Bangladesh has so far tested 1,39,36,400 samples.

Meanwhile, 331 patients recovered from the deadly infection in the last 24 hours, raising the overall recovery to 18,91,528.

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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