Bangladesh registered 30 more deaths from Covid-19 and 1,272 new cases of the deadly disease between Monday and Tuesday mornings.
Disclosing the latest data in a media statement on Tuesday afternoon, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said another 1,115 patients recovered from Covid-19 through treatment during the same period.
With the latest development, the country’s death toll since March last year reached 12,211, the total number of cases 782,129 and the number of total recovery 724,209 patients, which is 92.59% of all infected.
Of the 30 deceased — 14 men and 16 women — 15 were from the Dhaka Division, eight from Chittagong, two each from Rajshahi, Mymensingh and Sylhet, and one from Rangpur Division.
Twenty-eight of them died at different hospitals and two at home.
So far, 8,834 men (72.34%) and 3,377 women (27.66%) have died of Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected currently stands at 1.56%.
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As many as 16,855 samples, including some pending ones, were tested at 466 authorized labs — government and private — across the country between 8am Monday and 8am Tuesday.
The latest figures showed an infection rate of 7.55%.
To date, 5,734,918 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 13.64%.
On March 8, 2020, the health authorities in Bangladesh had reported the first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a new coronavirus strain that was later named Sars-CoV-2.
The fast-spreading virus claimed over 3,408,200 lives and infected more than 164,494,200 people across the world till Tuesday evening, according to worldometer. At the same time, over 143,341,800 people also recovered from Covid-19.
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.
