Fifty two more people have died of Covid-19 in different districts of Khulna division in the last 24 hours until Monday morning  as highly contagious Delta variant continues its onslaught across the country. According to the health director's office, another 1,165 people tested positive during the period. Read: 13 more die of Covid in Khulna hospitals Of the recent deaths, 14 were recorded in Kushtia, 12 in Khulna, 11 in Jessore,5 in Meherpur, 3 in Jhenaidah, 2 each in Bagerhat, Magura and Narail and 1 in Satkhira. Khulna has emerged as one of the hotspots of coronavirus in June and July as the number of cases and deaths has been increasing every day. Read:Covid claims 51 more lives in Khulna division, another 1,345 infected With the fresh numbers, the total death toll in the division has crossed 1,947, said the health officials. Some 82,586 cases have been detected in 10 districts of the division since the onset of Covid, of which 54,405 patients have recovered so far.

Seventeen more people including eight Rab members and four policemen were diagnosed with coronavirus in the last 24 hours till Thursday, raising  the number of confirmed cases to 151 in Keraniganj, one of the hotspots of coronavirus infection.   Dr Mir Mobarak Hossain, health officer of Upazila Health Complex, said ten members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and  four policemen of Keraniganj Model Police Station were among the infected ones.   Of the infected people, four are from Jinjira, eight from Teghuria, two from Shubhaddya, one each from Kalindi, Aganagar and Basta areas of the upaizla, he said.