Bangladesh recorded 6,676 new Covid-19 cases and 10 deaths in 24 hours to 8am on Monday.
With the fresh cases reported after testing 31,980 samples, the daily positivity rate jumped to 20.88% from Sunday’s 17.82% during the period, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The country last logged 7,248 cases and 172 deaths on August 18, last year with a positivity rate at 17.67 per cent in 24 hours.
Bangladesh is currently seeing a surge of Covid-19 cases as health authorities registered 38,478 infections in the last 16 days since January 1.
The death toll in the country stands at 28,154 with mortality rate of 1.73% while the total caseload stands at 1,624,387, according to the Directorate General of Health Services.
Moreover, 427 people recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries to 1,553,320.
Seven deaths were reported in Dhaka division while two in Chittagong and another in Barisal division.
The seven-day moving average of single-day deaths in Bangladesh was seven on Monday.
Health authorities marked Dhaka as a red zone owing to its high number of cases for the last few days.
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 reported the highest number of daily fatalities of 264 on August 10 last year, while the highest daily caseload was 16,230 on July 28 last year.
Amid the growing concern over the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus, the government on January 13 came out with the restrictions on movement of people and public transport vehicles.
Bangladesh’s total tally of Omicron cases reached 33 with detection of three more cases till Wednesday, according to GISAID, a global initiative on sharing all influenza data.
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.
The fast-spreading coronavirus has so far claimed over 5.5 million lives and infected over 327 million people throughout the world, according to Worldometer.
More than 266 million people have recovered from the disease, which has affected 223 countries and territories across the planet.