With the fresh ones, the total number of deaths from the deadly virus in the country reached 8,111 while the mortality rate stands at 1.52 percent, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said in a handout.

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It said the Covid-19 infection rate in the country is now 3 percent.

Meanwhile, the new cases pushed up the national tally to 534,770 while the current overall detection rate is 14.69 percent. Until this morning, 479,297 patients (89.63 percent of the total reported cases) have recovered.

So far, 3,639,497 samples have been tested, including 12,084 in the past 24 hours. Bangladesh reported its first Coronavirus cases on March 8 and the first death on March 18 last year.

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Earlier on Friday, the country recorded 454 coronavirus cases and only seven fatalities.

Global Covid-19 Situation

The death toll from Covid-19 in the world has now surged past 102 million.

The total case count reached 102,007,448 while the death toll from the virus climbed to 2,204,494 on Saturday morning.

The US remained the world's worst-hit country, with 25,923,061 cases and 436,624 deaths, as per the data.

India’s total caseload stood at 10,720,048 and the death toll at 154, 010 as of Saturday morning.

Brazil on Friday reported 1,119 deaths from Covid in the past 24 hours, taking its death toll to 222,666.

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Meanwhile, 59,826 new cases of Covid were detected, bringing the nationwide tally to 9,118,513.

The state of Sao Paulo, the most populated in the country, is the hardest hit, with 1,759,957 cases and 52,722 deaths, followed by Rio de Janeiro, with 516,868 cases and 29,563 deaths.

Brazil has the world's second-highest Covid death toll, after the United States.

Vaccination in Bangladesh

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina launched a Covid-19 vaccination drive at Kurmitola General Hospital in the capital on January 27.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque said at the launch that “70 lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccines are now available in the country. The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is the safest one in the world".

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For getting a shot, one needs to register on www.surokkha.gov.bd.

For now, the vaccination programme will be limited to five centres in the capital and nationwide inoculation will start in early February.

Mass Vaccination in Bangladesh

A day after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the Covid-19 vaccination programme in Bangladesh, the Health Ministry on Thursday rolled out the inoculation drive at five government hospitals in Dhaka.

At Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), Vice Chancellor Dr Kanak Kanti Barua kicked off the programme in the morning by getting a shot of Covishield, the Oxford-AstraZeneca-developed vaccine produced by the Serum Institute of India (SII).

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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on January 27 inaugurated the much-sought Covid-19 vaccination programme at a city hospital to check the coronavirus pandemic in Bangladesh. The national wide vaccination drive will start off on February 7.

Bangladesh first received two million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from India as a gift and then received five more million doses from the Serum Institute of India.