Still in the midst of Covid-19 crisis, Bangladesh lost 210 more lives to the deadly virus, while another 12,383 people contracted it in24 hours till Wednesday morning.

The new numbers took the country’s death tally to 17,052 and the caseload to 10,59,538, according to a handout issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

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The fresh cases were detected after testing 42,490 samples during the period, bringing down the case positivity rate slightly to 29.14% from Tuesday’s 29.21%.

However, the case fatality rate remained unchanged at 1.61% during the 24-hour period.

The country saw a record number of 13,768 Covid cases on Monday and the highest-ever 230 deaths on Sunday.

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So far, 897,412 people have recovered from the disease, taking the country’s recovery rate to 84.70%, which is on the decline compared to other indicators.

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