Testing samples for Covid-19 decreased to 11 thousand from 29 thousand in the past 24 hours amid the Eid holidays pushing down the number of fresh cases.
The Directorate General of Health Services in a press release said It said 187 people died from Covid in the past 24 hours till 8:00am and 3,697 fresh ceases were recorded in the period.
Covid positivity stood at 32.19 per cent COVID-19 positive cases as 11,486 samples were tested in the past 24 hours, the release said adding that the daily infection continued to exceed 10,000 mark for several days since on July 6.
The official tally showed the virus killed 18,685 people and infected 11,40,200 so far, it added.
The recovery count rose to 9,69,610 after another 8,566 patients were discharged from the hospitals during the past one day.
The DGHS statistics showed of the people infected from the beginning 85.04 per cent recovered, while 1.64 per cent died.
Among the total 18,685 fatalities, 8,850 deaths occurred in Dhaka division, 3,403 in Chattogram, 1,439 in Rajshahi, 2,391 in Khulna, 566 in Barishal, 663 in Sylhet, 902 in Rangpur and 471 in Mymensingh division, adds BSS.
The DGHS said Bangladesh’s Covid-19 confirmed cases crossed 5,000 mark on March 29, 2021, 6,000 mark on April 1, 202, 7,000 mark on April 4, 2021, 8,000 mark on June 24, 2021, 9,000 mark on July 5 and 11,000 mark on July 6.
According to month-wise statistics last year, 51 Covid-19 positive cases were detected in March 2020, 7616 in April, 39,486 in May, 98,330 in June, 92,178 in July, 75,335 in August, 50,483 in September, 44, 205 in October, 57,248 in November and 48,578 in December.
The beginning of the current year witnessed a drastic fall of coronavirus cases in the country but the trend lasted for only two months — 21,629 cases were detected in January and 11,077 in February.
The country witnessed a sharp increase of infection as 65,079 cases were reported in March 2021 and 1,47,837 cases in April. The country again witnessed a fall in May 2021 as it recorded 41,408 cases. From the beginning of June 2021, the country recorded a sharp rise with 1,12,718 cases, the DGHS said.
According to month-wise statistics last year, five Covid-19 deaths were reported in March 2020, 163 in April, 482 in May, 1,197 in June, 1,264 in July, 1,179 in August, 970 in September, 672 in October, 721 in November and 915 in December.
Month-wise data of the current year, 568 coronavirus fatalities were recorded in January 2021, 281 in February, 638 in March and 2,404 in April, 1,169 in May and 1,884 in June, the DGHS sources said.
As of 11:35 GMT on Thursday, 4,145,502 people have died so far from the Covid-19 outbreak and there are currently 192,974,202 confirmed cases in 212 countries and territories, according to Worldometer.
China was the world’s first country which on January 11, 2020, reported the first death from the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province.
