The daily percentage of people testing positive for Covid-19 in Bangladesh has gone up over 5% after remaining lower for two days.
In the 24 hours to Monday morning, 697 infections were reported with the daily test positivity rate standing at 5.49%.
With the latest developments, the number of all confirmed cases now stands at 528,329 according to the daily virus update by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), released on Monday afternoon.
It was 4.23% and 4.73% on Sunday and Saturday respectively, which marked the continuation of the ongoing trend of single-digit percentage test positivity rate in the country.
The overall positivity percentage on Monday was, however, 15.22% with a total of 3,470,160 tests being conducted across the country till now.
The country also registered 16 more deaths in the last 24 hours, pushing the tally up to 7,922.
The DGHS said 12,829 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
As many as 12,707 samples, including the pending ones, were tested in the 199 authorized labs — government and private — across the country.
Deaths
Of the 16 deceased –12 men and four women – 11 were from Dhaka division, three from Chittagong, and one each from Rajshahi and Mymensingh divisions.
All of them breathed their last while undergoing treatment at different hospitals across the country.
So far, 6,004 men (75.79%) and 1,918 women (24.21%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.50%.
The health authorities said 736 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 528,329 patients – 89.56% of all infected – have made full recovery across the country.
On March 8, the 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 of 2019 and quickly spread throughout the world, becoming a pandemic in less than three months.
The fast-spreading coronavirus has claimed more than 2,041,000 lives and infected as many as 95,553,000 people across the world till Monday evening, according to worldometer, a reference website that provides counters and real-time statistics for diverse topics.
As many as 68,268,000 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has affected 220 countries and territories across the planet.
