With Covid-19 vaccine jabs still remaining off the peak in Bangladesh, the country reported 178 more coronavirus-related deaths and 6,885 fresh infections in 24 hours till Saturday Morning.

The fresh numbers took the country’s death tally to 23,988 while the total cases mounted to 1,412,218, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The new infections were detected after testing 33,330 samples, bringing down the case positivity rate slightly to 20.66% from Friday’s 20.88%.

Meanwhile, the case fatality rate increased to 1.70% from yesterday’s 1.68% during the period.

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Besides, the recovery rate rose to 90.62%, with 7,805 new patients recovered from the infection

Though the country has been seeing below 200 deaths for the last two days, the seven-day average still remains over 230 as the country logged over 200 deaths every day from July 25 to August 12.

Dhaka division reported the highest 67 deaths on Saturday followed by 45 in Chattogram, 23 in Khulna, 14 in Rajshahi, 11 in Sylhet, seven in Barishal, six in Rangpur and five in Mymensingh divisions.

Of them, 109 were men and 69 were women.

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Since the beginning of the vaccination programme, as many as 5,428,345 people have been fully vaccinated with Covid jabs while the government completed administering the first dose to 15,461,583 people, said the DGHS.

People in Bangladesh are now showing more interest in receiving Covid-19 vaccine shots as 31,828,492 have registered for the vaccination so far.

Getting vaccinated prevents severe illness, hospitalizations, and death; and with the Delta variant; this is more urgent than ever, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.