Bangladesh reported one more Covid-linked death with 239 fresh cases in 24 hours till Monday morning, health authorities said. The new deceased was a man from Chattogram division. The daily positivity rate declined to 1.75 per cent from Sunday’s 1.88 per cent after testing 13,667 samples during the period, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). The fatalities on Monday were lower than Friday that witnessed three more Covid-linked deaths with 233 fresh cases Also read: India logs 2,503 new COVID-19 cases, total rises to 42,993,494 The latest numbers took the country’s total fatalities to 29,112 while the caseload to 19,49,725. Of the 26 deaths recorded from March 7 to March 13 some 57.7 per cent received Covid vaccines while 42.3 percent did not, the DGHS mentioned. Comorbidities among the deceased patients decreased by 5.8 per cent this week compared to the previous one. Comorbidity means the simultaneous presence of two or more diseases or medical conditions in a patient. Meanwhile, the mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.49 per cent. The recovery rate rose to 95.54 per cent with the recovery of 1,922  more patients during the 24-hour period. Also read: Covid claims 3 more lives in Bangladesh, infects 198 others On January 28, Bangladesh logged its previous highest daily positivity rate at 33.37 per cent reporting 15,440 cases and 20 deaths. On December 9 last year, Bangladesh logged zero Covid-related death after nearly three weeks. The country reported first zero Covid-related death in a single day on November 20 last year along with 178 infections since the pandemic broke out in Bangladesh in March 2020. Besides, the country registered the highest daily caseload of 16,230 on July 28 last year, while the highest number of daily fatalities was 264 on August 10 last year.

At least 22 judges of lower courts have been infected with Covid-19 during a training at Bangladesh Judicial Administration Training Institute, officials said on Monday. The infected judges were from 43rd and 44th batches of the training, said director of Bangladesh Judicial Administration Training Institute, Mohammad Golam Kibria. Also read: Top Rajshahi officials test positive for Covid-19 They were kept in isolation at the institute, he said. The authorities concerned also suspended the training until further notice, as the judges got infected with the virus, he added. The two-month long training of 70 judges of different Assistant Judges and Judicial Magistrates began on January 9. Also read: Asaduzzaman Noor contracts Covid-19

A couple of factors are at play, starting with the emergence of the highly contagious omicron variant. Omicron is more likely to infect people, even if it doesn't make them very sick, and its surge coincided with the holiday travel season in many places. People might mistakenly think the COVID-19 vaccines will completely block infection, but the shots are mainly designed to prevent severe illness, says Louis Mansky, a virus researcher at the University of Minnesota. And the vaccines are still doing their job on that front, particularly for people who've gotten boosters. Also read: CDC mulling COVID test requirement for asymptomatic: Fauci Two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines or one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine still offer strong protection against serious illness from omicron. While those initial doses aren’t very good at blocking omicron infection, boosters — particularly with the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines — rev up levels of the antibodies to help fend off infection. Omicron appears to replicate much more efficiently than previous variants. And if infected people have high virus loads, there's a greater likelihood they'll pass it on to others, especially the unvaccinated. Vaccinated people who get the virus are more likely to have mild symptoms, if any, since the shots trigger multiple defenses in your immune system, making it much more difficult for omicron to slip past them all. Also read: US children hospitalized with COVID in record numbers Advice for staying safe hasn't changed. Doctors say to wear masks indoors, avoid crowds and get vaccinated and boosted. Even though the shots won’t always keep you from catching the virus, they'll make it much more likely you stay alive and out of the hospital.

Covid-19 in Bangladesh claimed 25 more lives and infected 1,212 others in 24 hours till Monday morning.  The fresh cases were detected after testing 27,287 samples keeping the daily case positivity rate at 4.36 percent, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).  With this, the daily case positivity rate of Covid-19 in the country remained below 5 percent for the seventh consecutive day. READ: Global Covid cases approach 232 million   According to the World Health Organization (WHO), if the daily-case positivity rate remains at 5 percent or below for 14 days is considered to be safe for mass unlocking.  The fresh numbers reported today took the total fatalities to 27,439 while the caseload mounted to 1,552,563, said the DGHS. However, the mortality rate remained static at 1.77 percent. READ: Covid daily death toll falls to 21 in Bangladesh  The recovery rate remained unchanged at 97.43 percent with the recovery of 1,202 more patients during the period. So far, 1,512,681 people have recovered from the deadly virus infections, the DGHS added.

A one and half month-old child on Tuesday tested positive for Covid-19 in Kushtia.Kushtia General Hospital (KGH) doctors say this was the first Covid-19 case in the district found in such a young body.The child was brought to the hospital by his parents with a cold and fever. Hospital Superintendent Dr MA Momen said the child was admitted to the hospital's children's ward on Monday with a cold and fever.The on-duty doctors suspected Covid-19 symptoms and collected samples for testing, the same day. READ: Covid-19: Bangladesh reports 76 more deaths, 4,846 fresh cases On Tuesday, the PCR lab report showed that the child tested positive for Covid-19 virus.Iftekhar Hasan, an on-duty doctor at the hospital's corona ward, said they had never seen Covid-19 virus identified in the body of such a young child.The child was being given necessary treatment at the corona ward, he said.  Meanwhile, in the last 24 hours, five more people died of coronavirus in KGH. READ: Covid-19: Bangladesh’s daily positivity rate hits 19.27%; 78 more die

A viral outbreak that began in China has infected nearly 78,000 people globally. The World Health Organization has named the illness COVID-19, referring to its origin late last year and the coronavirus that causes it.

A viral outbreak that began in China has infected more than 31,400 people globally.

A viral outbreak that began in China has infected more than 20,600 people globally.

A viral outbreak that began in China has infected more than 14,400 people globally.