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Covid-19: Daily infection rate remains below 4% for third day

Tribune Desk

Published at 03:43 pm January 28th, 2021

Five hospitals across Dhaka started administering coronavirus vaccines

Bangladesh records another 15 deaths, 509 new cases of Covid-19 in 24 hours

The daily test-positivity rate for Covid-19 in Bangladesh has remained below the 4% mark for three consecutive days.

The latest figures showed an infection rate of 3.43% in the 24 hours to Thursday morning, according to a Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) press release.

The country recorded 15 fresh deaths from Covid-19, bringing the overall death toll to 8,087.

A total of 509 people tested positive for the infectious disease during the 24-hour time frame, taking the total number of cases in Bangladesh to 533,953.

The overall test positivity rate now stands at 14.77%.

Of the 15 deceased — 12 men and three women — 12 were from Dhaka Division and one each from Barisal, Chittagong and Khulna.

All 15 died at different hospitals across the country.

So far, 6,127 men (75.76%) and 1,960 women (24.24%) have died of Covid-19 in the country.

The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.51%.

The DGHS said 611 people recovered from Covid-19 over the preceding 24 hours.

Up till now, 478,546 patients — 89.62% — have recovered from the disease caused by coronavirus.

As many as 14,830 samples, including some pending ones, were tested at the 204 authorized labs — government and private — across the country.

On March 8, 2020, health authorities in Bangladesh reported the first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a new coronavirus strain which was later named Sars-CoV-2.

The novel coronavirus broke out in China's Wuhan city in late December in 2019 and quickly spread throughout the world, becoming a pandemic in less than three months.

The fast spreading coronavirus has claimed 2,185,981 lives and infected 101,505,932 people across the world till Thursday afternoon, according to Worldometer, a reference website that provides counters and real-time statistics for diverse topics.

As many as 73,407,645 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has affected 221 countries and territories across the planet.