Bangladesh logged four more deaths from Covid-19 and 268 new cases in the 24 hours to Sunday morning.
With the detection of the new cases after testing 17,072 samples, the daily test positivity rate dropped to 1.57% from Saturday’s 2.01%, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The recovery rate remained static at 97.74% with the recovery of 247 more patients during the 24-hour period.
The latest additions took the country’s total fatalities to 28,060, total caseload to 1,583,253, and the total number of recoveries to 1,547,427.
According to the data, the country’s overall Covid-19 mortality rate until Sunday morning stood at 1.77% and the overall positivity lowered to 13.9%.
The seven-day moving average of single-day deaths in Bangladesh was 1.71 on Sunday.
In terms of deaths per division, Dhaka logged the highest with three fatalities while Rajshahi logged one.
Of the new patients, Dhaka logged 246 cases, the highest among the divisions. No new cases were reported in 52 districts of the country.
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, however, has been witnessing infection rates below or around 2% for the past few weeks. The country last recorded an infection rate of over 3% on October 4 when the figure stood at 3.19%.
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.
Called B.1.1.529, Omicron is the fifth variant of concern designated by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Bangladesh reported Omicron cases in two Bangladeshi women cricketers who returned from Zimbabwe earlier in the month.
The fast-spreading coronavirus has so far claimed over 5.3 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.