Covid-19: Bangladesh logs 7 more deaths, 469 cases

Bangladesh added 7 new coronavirus-related deaths and 469 infections in a 24-hour period till 8:00am on Tuesday.

The positivity rate rose to 2.2 per cent from Monday’s 1.8 per cent.

With this, the daily-case positivity rate in the country remained

below 5 per cent for the 28th consecutive day.

In Bangladesh, the daily-case positivity rate reached its peak of 32.55 per cent on July 24 this year.

The overall caseload now stands at 15,66,296 and the total fatalities at 27,785 according to the press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Health authorities reported the latest figures after testing 21,559 samples at 832 laboratories across the country.

Bangladesh has so far tested 1,01,35,042 samples.

Meanwhile, 697 patients recovered from the deadly infection in the last 24-hours, raising the overall recovery to 15,29,068.

Among the fresh fatalities, five were males and two were females.

Dhaka and Chattogram divisions logged the highest deaths with three and two fatalities; followed by one each in Khulna and Rangpur.

Rajshahi, Barishal, Sylhet and Mymensingh divisions reported no new deaths.

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

Meanwhile, the global Covid-19 caseload reached 241,216,693 and the death toll to 4,907,461 till Monday morning, according to US-based Johns Hopkins University (JHU) update.