Covid: Daily positivity rate at 13.77%

Bangladesh on Tuesday registered 4,746 fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours while the daily infection rate rose slightly to 13.77 per cent.

The country also logged 34 more deaths over the same period, pushing the tally up to 28,872.

The test positivity rate has been witnessing an upward trend since the start of the new year, rising from 2.43 per cent on January 1.

On Monday, the positivity rate stood at 13.53 per cent. The daily case positivity rate reached its peak at 33.37 per cent on January 28 this year.

With the fresh infections, the number of total caseload reached 19,19,102, 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 34,458 samples at 874 laboratories across the country. Bangladesh has so far tested 1,30,64,245 samples.

Meanwhile, 11,417 patients recovered from the deadly infection in the last 24 hours, raising the overall recovery to 17,03,309.

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