Bangladesh logged one more death from Covid-19 and 373 new cases in the 24 hours to Monday morning.
With the detection of the new cases after testing 17,271 samples, the daily test positivity rate jumped to 2.16% from Sunday’s 1.57%, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The recovery rate remained static at 97.73% with the recovery of 323 more patients during the 24-hour period.
The latest additions took the country’s total fatalities to 28,061, total caseload to 1,583,626, and the total number of recoveries to 1,547,750.
According to the data, the country’s overall Covid-19 mortality rate until Monday morning stood at 1.77% and the overall positivity lowered to 13.88%.
The seven-day moving average of single-day deaths in Bangladesh was 1.57 on Monday.
The only single death in the country was recorded in Dhaka division.
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Of the new patients, Dhaka logged 311 cases, the highest among the divisions. No new cases were reported in 41 districts of the country.
Though the deaths remained below five since December 13, the daily cases remained mostly over 250, according to data provided by the DGHS.
On December 9, Bangladesh logged zero Covid-related death after nearly three weeks as the pandemic was apparently showing signs of easing.
The country reported this year’s first zero Covid-related death in a single day on November 20 along with 178 infections since the pandemic broke out in Bangladesh in March 2020.
Bangladesh reported the highest number of daily fatalities of 264 on August 5 this year, while the highest daily caseload was 16,230 on July 28 this year.
Around 71.14 million people in the country have received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. Of them, some 49.14 million have taken both doses, according to DGHS data collected till Monday.
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Meanwhile, some 54 people received the booster dose against the virus in the country.
Bangladesh reported its first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a strain of coronavirus later named Sars-CoV-2, on March 8, 2020. The first death was reported 10 days later.
The country, however, has been witnessing infection rates below or around 2% for the past few weeks. The country last recorded an infection rate of over 3% on October 4 when the figure stood at 3.19%.
Bangladesh lifted nationwide lockdown on August 11. However, experts have warned against complacency as many countries are seeing a surge in infections yet again.
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A large number of the population has also been vaccinated with the country crossing the landmark of administering 100 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines on December 1, nearly in 10 months after kicking off a nationwide campaign.
Meanwhile, the discovery of a new variant, Omicron, has triggered a global alarm.
Called B.1.1.529, Omicron is the fifth variant of concern designated by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Bangladesh reported Omicron cases in two Bangladeshi women cricketers who returned from Zimbabwe earlier in the month.
The fast-spreading coronavirus has so far claimed over 5.4 million lives and infected over 279 million people throughout the world, according to Worldometer.
More than 250 million people have recovered from the disease, which has affected 223 countries and territories across the planet.