The daily Covid-19 test positivity rate in Bangladesh has remained below 3% for the last four days.
A total 316 new infections were reported from 13,762 samples tested in the 24 hours till Monday morning, resulting in a daily test positivity rate of 2.30%. This is the lowest the daily test positivity rate has been since it hit 2.07% on April 4.
The test positivity rate in the country has been in single digits since December 19.
With the latest infections, the number of all confirmed cases jumped to 538,378, according to the daily virus update by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), released on Monday afternoon.
A total 13,841 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours for testing at 206 authorized labs across the country.
The overall infection rate in the country stands at 14.31% from 3,762,774 tests that have been conducted, so far.
Mortality rate 1.53%
The country registered 16 more deaths from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, taking the number of total fatalities to 8,221.
Of the deceased - 12 men and four women -- 12 were from Dhaka division, and one each from Chittagong, Rajshahi, Barisal, and Rangpur divisions.
All the victims died at hospitals.
So far, 6,229 men (75.77%) and 1,992 women (24.23%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected in the country stands at 1.53%.
Recovery rate 89.89%
The DGHS said 559 people have recovered from Covid-19 over the last 24 hours.
So far, 483,931 patients — 89.89% of all infected — have made full recoveries across the country.
On March 8, health authorities in Bangladesh reported the first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a new coronavirus strain 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 had claimed 2,328,488 lives and infected 106,735,474 people across the world till Monday afternoon, according to Worldometer, a reference website that provides counters and real-time statistics for diverse topics.
As many as 78,436,039 people have recovered from Covid-19, which has spread to 219 countries and territories across the planet.
