Bangladesh logged 18 more Covid-linked deaths with 16,033 fresh cases in 24 hours till Tuesday morning. The daily positivity rate rose to 32.40 per cent from Monday’s 32.37 per cent after testing 49,697 samples, according to the Directorate general of health Services (DGHS). The country logged its daily positivity rate of 32.55% on July 24 last year reporting 6,780 cases and 195 deaths. Read: Govt. will wait for a week to take further decision on Covid-19 curbs: Farhad 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. The fresh numbers took the country’s total fatalities to 28,256 while the caseload mounted to 1,715,997 on Tuesday.