With the Delta variant of Covid-19 tearing through Bangladesh, the country reported 231 more deaths in 24 hours till Sunday morning.

Besides, 14,844 people came out positive for the virus after the test of 49,529 samples, said a handout issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

It said the fresh cases took Bangladesh’s total fatality to 20,916 while the caseload to 1,264,328.

Meanwhile, the daily test positivity rate marked a negligible fall to 29.97% from Saturday’s 30.24 %, while the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends a 5% or below rate.

On average, the country has been seeing nearly 14,000 cases and over 200 deaths daily for a week.

However, the recovery rate rose to 86.47% from the previous day’s 86.29 % and the case fatality rate fell to 1.65% from last day’s 1.66 %, said the DGHS media release.

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During the 24-hour period, 15,054 patients recovered from the fatal disease.

Among the latest fatalities, the highest 77 deaths were recorded in Dhaka division followed by 53 in Chattogram, 44 in Khulna, 18 in Rangpur, 13 in Rajshahi, 11 in Mymensingh, six in Barishal, and nine in Sylhet divisions.  

Of them, 139 were men and 92 women.

Among them, two were between 11-20 years of age, three between 21-30, 19 between 31-40, 34 between 41-50, 46 between 51-60, 72 between 61-70, 45 between 71-80, nine between 81-90, one between 91-100 years old.

July the most fatal

Logging highest 6,182 deaths and 336,226 new cases, July has become the most fatal month since the reporting of first Covid cases in the country in March, 2020.

This month, the country saw a record number of deaths and cases almost every day.

The country’s highest-ever 258 Covid deaths were reported on July 27 and record shattering 16,230 cases were reported on July 28.

Besides, the case positivity rate also reached its peak 32.55% on July 24 while the highest 56, 157 sample tests were completed on July 28.

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The number of Covid testing labs increased to 649 in July from June’s 565 labs which was only 6 on January this year.

Earlier, the country saw 2,404 Covid deaths in April, 1,169 in May and 1,884 in June marking the most fatal months of this year.

Also, July was the most fatal month of 2020, reporting 1,264 deaths followed by 1,197 deaths in June that year.