The infection rate in Bangladesh has been witnessing a falling trend after reaching the peak, according to the DGHS.
Director General of Health Services (DGHS) Additional Director General Prof Nasima Sultana said that the country was no longer at the peak.
Nasima Sultana was responding to a question on the state of the pandemic in the country at present and the status of required coronavirus tests at the first press conference held by new DGHS DG ABM Khurshid Alam on Monday afternoon.
Citing projections by IEDCR, she said: “Bangladesh is in a decreasing stage.”
She said only patients with symptoms and those who had had direct contact with infected patients were being tested.
She claimed that people were losing their eagerness for testing as the number of cases had been declining.
Bangladesh recorded 37 more deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the number of total fatalities to 2,965.
Besides, the country also logged more than 226,000 coronavirus cases with 2,772 people having tested positive over the same period.
With this development, the number of all confirmed cases has so far risen to 226,225.