Covid claimed 40 more lives and infected 880 people in Khulna division in the past 24 hours, health officials said on Sunday.
According to the health director's office, 16 people died in Kushtia, five each in Khulna, and Jhenaidah, seven in Jashore, three in Bagerhat, two each in Narail and Chuadanga districts.
Khulna district has registered the lowest deaths in the past one and half months on Sunday with five deaths, said officials.
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Besides, some 880 new Covid infections have been detected in 10 districts of the division in the past 24 hours, pushing up the total cases to 93, 812.
Similarly, the total death toll in the division has now reached 2,428, said the officials.
In Khulna division, the first case of Covid-19 was detected in Chuadanga on March 19, 2020.