The daily percentage of people testing positive for Covid-19 in Bangladesh has gone up over 3% after dipping lower for a day.
In the 24 hours to Thursday morning, 485 infections were reported with the daily test positivity rate standing at 3.18%.
With the latest developments, the number of all confirmed cases now stands at 537,030, according to the daily virus update by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) released on Thursday afternoon.
It was 2.92% on Wednesday, which marked the continuation of the ongoing trend of single-digit percentage test positivity rate in the country.
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The overall positivity percentage on Thursday was, however, 14.48% with a total of 3,708,907 tests being conducted across the country till now.
The country also registered 13 more deaths in the last 24 hours, pushing the tally up to 8,175.
The DGHS said 12,829 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
As many as 15,273 samples, including the pending ones, were tested in the 206 authorized labs — government and private — across the country.
Deaths
Of the 13 deceased – eight men and five women – seven were from Dhaka division, four from Chittagong, and one each from Rajshahi and Sylhet divisions.
All of them breathed their last while undergoing treatment at different hospitals across the country.
So far, 6,196 men (75.79%) and 1,979 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 1.52%.
The health authorities said 611 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 481,917 patients – 89.74% 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 2,280,380 lives and infected as many as 104,972,000 people across the world till Thursday afternoon, according to worldometer, a reference website that provides counters and real-time statistics for diverse topics.
As many as 76,725,900 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has affected 219 countries and territories across the planet.
