Bangladesh saw the deaths of 24 more men and 12 women from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours until early Monday.

A total of 1,33,978 in 7,12,098  coronavirus tests carried out in Bangladesh have turned out to be positive.   The health authorities have detected 3,504 cases after testing 15,157 samples at 58 labs in the span of 24 hours until Saturday. The infection rate for the day was recorded at 23.12 percent.   Since March 18, the government said 1,695 people have died of COVID-19.   In the last 24 hours, 34 people died from the highly contagious disease.   Additional Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Prof Dr Nasima Sultana came up with the disclosure at its daily health bulletin.    Cosmos Dialogue: Impact of Covid-19 on Bangladesh: Prognosis for Recovery   She noted that at present, the total infection rate against the number of total tests is 18.81 percent.    In the last 24 hours, 1,185 patients recovered from the disease, taking the total number of recoveries in the country to 54,318.    Against the total number of detected cases, the recovery rate is 40.54 percent and the mortality rate is 1.27 percent in the country, she said.   Among the deceased, 32 were male and two were female. “Their age-based analysis says, one was aged between 21 and 30 years, one between 31 and 40, six were aged between 41 and 50 years, six between 51 and 60, 13 between 61 and 70 and seven were aged between 71 and 80 years,” Dr Nasima said.     Thirteen patients died in Dhaka division, 10 in Chattogram division, one in Khulna division, four in Rajshahi division, four in Sylhet division, and two more patients died in Rangpur division.   “Thirty people died in hospitals across the country while four others died at homes,” she added.   Dr Nasima repeated the numbers of total beds available for the COVID-19 patients of the country and added that in the last 24 hours 275 new patients have been admitted to hospitals.    Talking about the zoning system to combat the spread of the disease, She said the red zone areas will not be under a permanent lockdown. “It is a continuous process.” 

A total of  1,30,474  in  6,96,941coronavirus tests carried out in Bangladesh have turned out to be positive.

The global death toll from Covid-19 reached 482, 128 on Thursday morning, according to the Centre for System Science and Engineering of  Johns Hopkins University.

Bangladesh on Sunday reported 3,531 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, raising the total number of confirmed cases to 1,12,306.   In the last 24 hours, 39 more patients lost their lives, raising the death toll to 1,464.   Additional Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Prof Dr Nasima Sultana came up with the disclosure at its daily health bulletin.   In the last 24 hours, 60 coronavirus testing laboratories across the country tested 15,585 samples, she said. “So far, 612,164 samples have been tested,” she added.    Read Also: Mashrafe infected with coronavirus