Bangladesh logged four more death from Covid-19 and 370 new cases in the 24 hours to Saturday morning.
With the detection of the new cases after testing 15,214 samples, the daily test positivity rate lowered to 2.43% from Friday’s 2.74%, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The recovery rate remained static at 97.69% with the recovery of 203 more patients during the 24-hour period.
The latest additions took the country’s total fatalities to 28,076, total caseload to 1,585,909, and the total number of recoveries to 1,549,304.
According to the official data, the country’s overall Covid-19 mortality rate until Saturday morning stood at 1.77% and the overall positivity lowered to 13.78%.
The seven-day moving average of single-day deaths in Bangladesh was 2.85 on Saturday.
All of the four fatalities were recorded in Dhaka.
Of the new patients, Dhaka logged 333 cases, the highest among the divisions. No new cases were reported in 44 districts of the country.
Though the deaths remained below relatively low since December 13, the daily cases remained mostly over 250, according to data provided by the DGHS.
The country reported the highest number of daily fatalities of 264 on August 5 this year, while the highest daily caseload was 16,230 on July 28 this year.
Bangladesh officially began the dispensation of booster doses of a Covid-19 vaccine on a limited scale from Tuesday morning.
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.
Bangladesh lifted nationwide lockdown on August 11. However, experts have warned against complacency as many countries are seeing a surge in infections yet again.
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.
Meanwhile, the discovery of a new variant, Omicron, has triggered a global alarm. Bangladesh reported seven Omicron cases till now.
Called B.1.1.529, Omicron is the fifth variant of concern designated by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The fast-spreading coronavirus has so far claimed over 5.4 million lives and infected over 279 million people throughout the world, according to Worldometer.
More than 250 million people have recovered from the disease, which has affected 223 countries and territories across the planet.