The past three months have been the worst period of Covid-19 in Bangladesh in terms of deaths, with April being the most fatal followed by June.
Between April 1 and June 30 this year, as many as 5,457 people died due to the pandemic across the country, according to the health authorities. This is around 37% or more than one third of the total 14, 503 deaths until June 30.
In 2021, some 568 people died due to Covid-19 in January, 281 in February, 638 in March, 2,404 in April, 1,169 in May, and 1,884 in June.
Alarmingly, the second half of the year in Bangladesh started with the daily tally of Covid-19 infections and deaths surging at record-breaking rates.
In the first two days of July last year, Bangladesh recorded 79 deaths. This year, 275 people died of Covid-19 in the two days, an increase of 348%.
Bangladesh registered 132 deaths on Friday, taking the toll so far to 14,778. This marked the sixth consecutive day that the daily coronavirus deaths stayed above 100.
On Thursday, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) reported 143 deaths, the highest ever single-day death since the pandemic broke out last year.
Meanwhile, infections jumped by 8,483 in the 24 hours to 8am on Friday, taking the total caseload to 930,042.
On July 1, 2020, some 3,775 people tested positive while the number was 4,019 on July 2.
An analysis of last six months
Between January 1 and June 30 this year, as many as 6,944 people died due to the pandemic across the country.
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With the death toll standing at 14,778 as of yesterday, almost 51% of the fatalities the country witnessed happened in the last six months of the pandemic.
In the past three months alone, Bangladesh recorded 36.93% of the total Covid-19 deaths.
So far, April was the deadliest month with 16.26% of the total deaths. The number went down in May (7.9%). In June, it (12.75%) was close to April’s death rate.
Meanwhile, another 4,509 patients recovered from the infectious disease in the 24 hours to yesterday morning, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Positivity rate 28.27% in 24 hours
As many as 30,012 samples, including some pending ones, were tested at 566 authorized labs of the country in 24 hours till yesterday, which yielded an infection rate of 28.27%.
To date, as many as 6,670,994 tests were conducted in Bangladesh, leading to an overall test positivity rate of 13.94%.
Eighty-one of the 132 deceased were men and 51 were women. As many as 35 of them died in Khulna division, 30 in Dhaka, 24 each in Chittagong and Rajshahi, nine in Rangpur, six in Mymensingh and two each in Barisal and Sylhet.
A total 119 of them died at different hospitals, while 13 died at home.
So far, 10,496 men (71.02%) and 4,282 women (28.98%) have died of Covid-19 in Bangladesh.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected currently stands at 1.59%.
Up to this point, 825,422 patients — 88.75% of all infected — have recovered from Covid-19 across the country.