Covid-19: Bangladesh logs six deaths, 604 infections in a day

Bangladesh recorded six deaths from coronavirus in the 24 hours till 8am on Friday with another 604 new infections being reported. 

The positivity rate climbed up to 3.20% during the same period as 18,964 samples were tested across the country, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

On Thursday, the country logged five deaths and 657 fresh Covid-19 cases.

The latest additions took the country's death toll to 29,064 and the total caseload to 19,46,369.

A total of 4,403 people recovered from Covid-19 in the meantime taking the total recovery to 18,35,980.

Of the deaths, three were reported in Dhaka division, two in Chittagong, and one in Sylhet division in the past 24 hours.  

Of them, three were female and the rest were male.

On January 28, Bangladesh logged its earlier highest daily positivity rate at 33.37% reporting 15,440 cases and 20 deaths.

On December 9 last year, Bangladesh again logged zero Covid-related death after nearly three weeks as the pandemic was apparently showing signs of easing.

The country reported the first zero death from the coronavirus in a single day on November 20 last year along with 178 infections since the pandemic broke out in Bangladesh in March 2020.

Besides, the country registered the highest daily caseload of 16,230 on July 28 last year, while the highest number of daily fatalities was 264 on August 10 last year.