Bangladesh has registered 50 deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours until Wednesday morning, taking the total number of fatalities to 11,755.
The latest single-day death toll is the lowest since April 3, when health authorities recorded 58 deaths. On April 2, the country registered 50 deaths again in the 24-hour span.
The country also logged a total of 767,338 coronavirus cases with 1,742 people testing positive in the past 24 hours.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) revealed the latest figures on Covid-19 in the country with a press release on Wednesday afternoon.
Of the 50 deceased – 32 men and 18 women – 28 were from Dhaka division, 16 from Chittagong, three from Khulna, two from Sylhet, and one from Rajshahi division.
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Of them, 35 people died in government hospitals, 12 in private hospitals, and three at home.
So far, 8,544 men (72.68%) and 3,211 women (27.32%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
Since the beginning, 6,840 people have died in Dhaka division, 2,150 in Chittagong, 615 in Rajshahi, 716 in Khulna, 355 in Barisal, 405 in Sylhet, 430 in Rangpur, and 244 in Mymensingh.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.53%.
The DGHS said 20,217 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the past 24 hours.
As many as 20,284 samples, including the pending ones, were tested in the 427 authorized labs — government and private — across the country and 1,742 new patients were confirmed.
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The latest figures show an infection rate of 8.59%.
To date, 5,560,678 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 13.80% so far.
The health authorities said 3,433 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 698,465 patients – 91.02% – have made full recovery 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 which was later named Sars-CoV-2. The country also recorded its first fatality on March 18.
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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 3,243,505 lives and infected 155,060,050 people across the world till Wednesday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
As many as 132,556,429 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has spread to 220 countries and territories across the planet.
