Bangladesh has registered over 3,500 daily cases for two days in a row after eight long months.
The country logged a total of 3,567 new Covid-19 cases in the 24 hours to Wednesday morning, taking the total number of infections to 580,808.
It was on July 2 when the country recorded a higher single-day caseload of 4,019. Since then, the number of daily cases remained below the 3,500 mark, until Tuesday when the number of daily infections stood at 3,554.
The month of March is seeing an upward trend of rising cases day by day. On March 1, 585 new Covid-19 cases were recorded, after almost a month of a lower rate of infections, and on Monday, 2,809 cases were detected.
The death toll climbed to 8,763 after 25 fatalities were recorded in the 24-hour period, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said in a press release.
Meanwhile, a total of 27,502 samples were tested in government and private testing facilities in 24 hours – the highest number of samples tested in a single day since Covid-19 broke out in the country on March 8, 2020. Total 25,954 samples were tested on Tuesday.
Of the 25 deceased – 18 men and seven women – 18 were from Dhaka division, three from Chittagong, and one each from Rangpur, Rajshahi, Barisal, and Sylhet divisions.
All the victims died while treatment at different hospitals across the country.
So far, 6,625 men (75.60%) and 2,138 women (24%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
Since the beginning, 4,947 people have died in Dhaka division, 1,606 in Chittagong, 489 in Rajshahi, 570 in Khulna, 266 in Barisal, 316 in Sylhet, 370 in Rangpur, and 199 in Mymensingh.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.51%.
The health authorities said 1,915 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 527,909 patients – 90.89% – have made full recovery across the country.
The latest figures show an infection rate of 12.97%. The overall infection rate in the country stands at 12.94%.
Currently, 10,339 people are in isolation and 33,950 are quarantined.
Also, more than 6.4 million people registered around the country to get the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine till Wednesday afternoon, said the health directorate.
Until Tuesday, over 4.9 million people have been vaccinated nationwide since January 27.
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 which was later named Sars-CoV-2.
The novel coronavirus broke out in China's Wuhan city in late December, 2019 and quickly spread throughout the world, becoming a pandemic in less than three months.
The fast-spreading coronavirus has claimed more than 2,748,000 lives and infected as many as 124,926,000 people across the world till Wednesday afternoon, according to worldometer.
As many as 100,925,000 people have recovered from Covid-19, which has affected 219 countries and territories across the planet.
