Bangladesh registered 36 more deaths from Covid-19 and 1,457 new cases of the deadly disease between Wednesday and Thursday mornings.
Disclosing the latest data in a media statement on Thursday afternoon, the health directorate also said that another 1,378 patients recovered from Covid-19 around the country during the same period.
With the latest development, the country’s death toll since March last year reached 12,284, the total number of cases 785,194, and the number of total recovery 727,510, which is 92..
Thirty-five of them died at different hospitals and one at home.
Of the 36 deceased — 26 men and 10 women — 12 were from the Dhaka Division, 14 from Chittagong, three each from Rajshahi and Sylhet, two from Khulna and one each from Mymensingh and Barisal Division.
The DGHS said among the total 12,284 fatalities, 7,084 deaths occurred in Dhaka division, 2,314 in Chattogram, 645 in Rajshahi, 738 in Khulna, 370 in Barishal, 434 in Sylhet, 446 in Rangpur and 253 in Mymensingh division.
So far, 8,884 men (72.33%) and 3,400 women (27.68%) have died of Covid-19 across the country.
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The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected currently stands at 1.56%.
As many as 19,437 samples, including some pending ones, were tested at 482 authorized labs — government and private — across the country between 8am Wednesday and 8am Thursday.
The latest figures showed an infection rate of 7.50%.
To date, 5,774,883 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 13.60%.
Bangladesh recorded the highest number of Covid-19 fatality on April 19 this year when the virus killed 112 people in a day.
The DGHS said Bangladesh’s Covid-19 confirmed cases crossed 5,000 mark on March 29, 2021 and 6,000 mark on April 1, 2021 while it surpassed 7,000 mark on April 4, 2021.
The country recorded 7,626 Covid-19 cases on April 7 this year, the highest daily spike since the outbreak of the pandemic, it added.
According to month-wise statistics last year, 51 Covid-19 positive cases were detected in March 2020, 7616 in April, 39,486 in May, 98,330 in June, 92,178 in July, 75,335 in August, 50,483 in September, 44, 205 in October, 57,248 in November and 48,578 in December.
The beginning of the current year witnessed a drastic fall of coronavirus cases in the country but the trend lasted for only two months — 21,629 cases were detected in January and 11,077 in February.
After the drastic fall of Covid-19 confirmed cases, the country witnessed sharp increase of infection as 65,079 cases were reported in March, 2021 and 1,47,837 cases in April.
According to month-wise statistics last year, five Covid-19 deaths were reported in March, 2020, 163 in April, 482 in May, 1,197 in June, 1,264 in July, 1,179 in August, 970 in September, 672 in October, 721 in November and 915 in December.
Month-wise data of the current year, 568 coronavirus fatalities were recorded in January, 2021, 281 in February and 638 in March, the DGHS sources said.
The DGHS said in order to make treatment facilities easily available for the Covid-19 patients, the government has introduced telemedicine services comprising 100 physicians for round the clock in the country.
It added that 2,80,27,506 people received healthcare services from hotline mobile numbers and health web portals as the government formed a group of medical professionals to provide emergency healthcare services.
To receive information and treatment facilities on COVID-19, the contact hotline and mobile numbers are 16263; 333; 10655 and 01944333222.
On March 8, 2020, the health authorities in Bangladesh had reported the first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a new coronavirus strain that was later named Sars-CoV-2.
The fast-spreading virus claimed over 3,433,602 lives and infected more than 165,629,929 people across the world till Thursday evening, according to worldometer. At the same time, over 144,688,930 people also recovered from Covid-19.
The novel coronavirus broke out in China's Wuhan city in late December 2019 and quickly spread throughout the world, becoming a pandemic in less than three months.