Bangladesh recorded 8,407 new Covid-19 cases and 10 deaths in 24 hours to 8am on Tuesday.
With the fresh cases reported after testing 35,054 samples, the daily positivity rate jumped to 23.98% from Monday’s 20.88% during the period, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Bangladesh last logged 8,456 cases and 197 deaths on August 13, last year with a positivity rate of 20.83% in 24 hours.
The country is currently seeing a surge of Covid-19 cases as health authorities registered 46,885 infections in the last 17 days since January 1.
The death toll in the country stands at 28,164 with mortality rate of 1.72% while the total caseload stands at 1,632,794, according to the Directorate General of Health Services.
Moreover, 475 people recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries to 1,553,795.
Seven deaths were reported in Dhaka division while one each in Chittagong, Khulna, and Mymensingh division.
The seven-day moving average of single-day deaths in Bangladesh was 8.14 on Tuesday.
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 331 million people throughout the world, according to Worldometer.
More than 269 million people have recovered from the disease, which has affected 223 countries and territories across the planet.