The single-day Covid-19 death toll in Bangladesh dropped to its lowest in nearly seven weeks as the health authorities reported 159 fresh fatalities in the 24 hours to 8am on Thursday.
The latest single-day death toll is the lowest since July 4, when the country registered 153 deaths. On July 5, the daily Covid-19 death toll was 164.
The caseload jumped by 6,566 during the same time, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
With the latest development, the total number of deaths stands at 24,878, while the number of total infections has risen to 1,447,210 in the country.
The single-day test positivity rate dropped further to 17.64%, with as many as 37,226 samples tested between 8am Wednesday and 8am Thursday.
This is the lowest daily test positivity rate in two months. On June 20, the test positivity rate was 16.38%.
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Another 10,153 patients have recovered from Covid in the country, taking the total number of recoveries to 1,337,181.
The seven-day moving average of daily deaths in Bangladesh also dropped to 180.7 on Thursday.
For a seven-day moving average, one has to take the data of the last one week, add them up, and divide it by seven. The most common application of moving average is to identify trend direction.
Dhaka logged the highest deaths with 50 fatalities, followed by Chittagong with 38. Sylhet division counted 23 deaths while Rajshahi 13, Khulna 12, Barisal 10, Rangpur eight, and Mymensingh five.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.72%.
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Dhaka also logged the highest number of cases among the divisions with 3,413 new infections, followed by Chittagong with 1,101.
To date, more than 8.55 million tests have been conducted around the country, leading to an overall test positivity rate of 16.91%.
The health authorities in Bangladesh reported the first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a strain of coronavirus named Sars-CoV-2, on March 8, 2020.
The fast spreading coronavirus has claimed more than 4.4 million lives and infected over 210 million people across the world till Thursday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
As many as 188.4 million people have recovered from Covid-19, which has spread to 220 countries and territories across the planet.
