Covid positivity rate drops to 4.01%

Bangladesh on Sunday recorded another 864 new cases of Covid-19, with the country’s daily test positivity sliding down to 4.01 per cent.

In the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said 9 more coronavirus-related deaths were also recorded, taking the total death toll from the deadly virus in the country to 29,033.

Bangladesh’s total number of positive cases now stands at 19,42,680 since the country first detected Covid patients on March 8, 2020.

On Saturday, the positivity rate was at 4.15 per cent. The daily case positivity rate reached its peak of 33.37 per cent on January 28 this year.

Health authorities reported the latest figures after testing 21,543 samples at 876 laboratories across the country. Bangladesh has so far tested 1,33,76,734 samples.

Some 6,264 patients recovered from the deadly infection in the last 24 hours, raising the overall recovery to 18,06,689.