The Covid-19 positivity rate is showing a slightly declining trend in recent days after a quicker community spread of the lethal virus during the previous three weeks in the division.
“Some 101 fresh Covid-19 cases were diagnosed after testing 383 samples at the 26.10% positivity rate here on Friday,” Divisional Director of Health Dr. Abu Md. Zakirul Islam told BSS today.
Earlier, the daily Covid-19 positivity rates were 38.80% on Thursday, 38.98% on Wednesday, 46.01% on
Tuesday, 41.87% on Monday, 41.82% on Sunday, 53.31% on Saturday last in the division.
“Despite indifferent attitude of people to abide by the health directives, the positivity rate started showing a declining trend as most of the people have already been vaccinated with the Covid-19 jabs in the division,” he said.
He hoped that the pandemic situation would likely continue to improve in the division where the third wave of the Covid-19 spread already might have crossed the peak infection period a few days ago.
“With the diagnosis of 101 new patients on Friday, the total number of Covid-19 cases has reached 61,169 in the division,” he said.
The district-wise break up of total 61,169 patients currently stands at 14,090 in Rangpur, 4,181 in Panchagarh, 5,104 in Nilphamari, 3,060 in Lalmonirhat, 4,856 in Kurigram, 8,366 in Thakurgaon, 16,233 in Dinajpur and 5,279 in Gaibandha in the division.
“Meanwhile, the number of Covid-19 casualties remained steady at 1,257 as no more patients died on Friday as the average casualty rate now stands at 2.05 %,” Dr. Islam said.
The district-wise break up of 1,257 fatalities stands at 295 in Rangpur, 81 in Panchagarh, 89 in Nilphamari, 70 in Lalmonirhat, 69 in Kurigram, 256 in Thakurgaon, 334 in Dinajpur and 63 in Gaibandha.
“Since the outbreak of the pandemic, a total of 3,23,548 collected samples were tested till Friday, and of them, 61,169 were found positive with an average positivity rate of 18.91%,” Islam said.
Meanwhile, the number of healed Covid-19 patients reached 55,397 with the recovery of 54 more patients on the day in the division. The average recovery rate stands at 90.56%.
The 55,397 recovered patients include 12,485 of Rangpur, 3,784 of Panchagarh, 4,416 of Nilphamari, 2,711 of Lalmonirhat, 4,537 of Kurigram, 7,672 of Thakurgaon, 14,901 of Dinajpur and 4,891 of Gaibandha districts.
Among the 61,169 patients, 124 are under treatment at isolation units, including 15 critical patients at ICU beds and seven at High Dependency Unit beds, after recovery of 55,397 patients and 1,257 deaths while 4,391 are remaining in home isolation.
“In the meantime, the number of citizens who got the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine rose to 1,08,29,636, and among them, 65,77,111 got the second dose and 1,92,012 got the booster dose till Friday in the division,” Dr Islam added.
Principal of Rangpur Medical College Professor Dr Bimal Chandra Roy urged all to abide by the health directives to contain further community spread of the Covid-19 virus.
