Bangladesh has registered 684 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours till Saturday morning, which is the lowest in almost eight months.
With the latest figure, the number of all confirmed cases so far jumped to 515,184, according to the daily virus update released on Saturday by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Earlier on May 10, the country recorded 887 cases in a span of 24 hours.
The health authorities confirmed that 23 more Covid-19 patients died in the past 24 hours, taking the number of total fatalities to 7,599.
Besides, 964 more people have recuperated from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 459,620 patients — 89.21% of all infected — have made full recovery across the country.
Fatality rate 1.48%
Of the 23 deceased -- 17 men and six women -- 14 were from Dhaka division, three from Rangpur, two each from Chittagong and Mymensingh, and one each from Rajshahi and Khulna divisions.
All the victims died at different hospitals in the country.
So far, 5,781 men (76.08%) and 1,818 women (23.92%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
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The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.48%.
Lowest daily infection rate in nearly nine months
The DGHS said 9,509 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
As many as 9,701 samples, including the pending ones, were tested in the 180 authorized labs — government and private — across the country and 684 new patients were confirmed.
The latest figures show an infection rate of 7.05%, which is the lowest in nearly nine months.
On April 11, the daily test positivity rate stood at 6.08%.
To date, 3,249,402 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 15.85% so far.
On March 8, health authorities in Bangladesh reported the first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a new coronavirus strain which was later named Sars-CoV-2.
The novel coronavirus broke out in China's Wuhan city in late December of 2019 and quickly spread throughout the world, becoming a pandemic in less than three months.
The fast spreading coronavirus has claimed 1,836,648 lives and infected 84,447,380 people across the world till Saturday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
As many as 59,735,604 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has spread to 218 countries and territories across the planet.