The government on Thursday dropped more hospitals from the list of Covid-19 dedicated hospitals due to the declining number of patients in the capital.
The hospitals are- Dhaka Mohanagar Hospital, Lalkuthi Hospital and Bashundhara Covid-19 Hospital.
The Health and Family Welfare Ministry issued a circular in this regard which requested the hospitals to cancel coronavirus treatment and start treating general patients.
Meanwhile, the health authorities detected 1,593 new after testing 13,673 samples that raised the number of total cases to 344,264 on Thursday.
The country saw the death of 36 more patients, raising the death tally to 4,859.
The mortality rate is 1.41 percent in the country.
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