Bangladesh has recorded 2,364 fresh cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours - the highest daily tally of new cases reported since September 2.
The country also recorded 30 new deaths from the pandemic, raising the total death toll to 6,305 since the first death was reported on March 18, according to a press release of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) issued on Thursday.
Bangladesh’s first Covid-19 cases were reported on March 8. The total number of infections has now surged to 441,159.
The daily test positivity rate was 13.48%. A total of 17,531 samples were tested at 117 authorized laboratories across the country.
Meanwhile, the recovery count rose to 356,722 after another 1,934 patients were discharged from hospitals in the 24 hours till Wednesday morning.
Among the 30 deaths, 25 are male and five are female. Of them, two person were ages between 41-50, seven were between ages 51-60 and 21 were above 60 years old
According to division-wise data in the last 24 hours, 25 deaths from Covid-19 took place in Dhaka division, one in Chittagong, one in Rajshahi, two in Barisal, and one in Sylhet, according to the press release.
A majority of them died in hospitals.
A total of 2,606,952 samples have been tested since the detection of the first Covid-19 case in the country.
