The daily test-positivity rate for Covid-19 in Bangladesh has dropped below the 3% mark after remaining below 4% for the last eight days.
The latest figures showed an infection rate of 2.92% in the 24 hours to Wednesday morning, according to a Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) press release.
The country is now showing a trend of single-digit percentage in test positivity rate for over six weeks as the health authorities reported a 10.30% infection rate on December 19 last year.
Bangladesh recorded 13 fresh deaths from Covid-19, bringing the overall death toll to 8,162.
A total of 438 people tested positive for the infectious disease during the 24-hour time frame, taking the total number of cases in Bangladesh to 536, 545.
The overall test positivity rate now stands at 14.53%.
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Of the 13 deceased — 11 men and two women — eight were from Dhaka division, two each from Chittagong and Khulna divisions, and one from Rajshahi division.
Of those who fell victim to the deadly virus,11 died at different hospitals across the country while the other two died at home.
So far, 6,188 men (75.81%) and 1,974 women (24.19%) have died of Covid-19 in the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.52%.
The DGHS said 578 people recovered from Covid-19 over the preceding 24 hours.
Up till now, 481,306 patients — 89.70% — have recovered from the disease caused by coronavirus.
As many as 14,985 samples, including some pending ones, were tested at the 206 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 more than 2,264,520 lives and infected 104,455,000 people across the world till Wednesday evening, according to worldometer, a reference website that provides counters and real-time statistics for diverse topics.
As many as 76,336,620 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has affected 219 countries and territories across the planet.
