Bangladesh’s daily coronavirus deaths dropped below the 100-mark on Saturday after 80 fatalities were reported in the previous 24 hours, taking the overall toll to 25,926, according to the health authorities.
Saturday’s death count is the lowest since June 26, when 77 fatalities were reported.
Maintaining a downward trend, 3,436 new infections were logged in the 24-hour span, taking the total caseload to 1,489,589.
The daily recoveries outnumbered the new cases during the same time as 4,861 people were reported to have recovered from the disease taking the total tally to 1,409,231 -- lower than the total infections.
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As many as 25,129 samples were tested at the 789 labs across the country, yielding a 13.67% positivity rate. The overall infection rate now stands at 16.85%, according to the latest data by the Directorate General of Health Services (DHGS).
Public health experts said the downtrend was the outcome of the strict restrictions imposed until August 19.
“There might be another spike in cases in two to three weeks from now as restrictions on public movement have been lifted,” Virologist Nazrul Islam told Dhaka Tribune.
Mushtaq Hossain, an adviser to the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), echoed Islam’s comments.
“Right now, we are seeing Covid-19 infections in clusters. If the health authorities can prevent cluster infections, Covid-19 infections and deaths are less likely to rise again in a few weeks,” he told Dhaka Tribune.
Crowds in Dhaka’s Rajarbagh Police Line area to receive the Covid-19 vaccine on Thursday, August 5, 2021 | Mehedi Hasan/Dhaka TribuneThe adviser to the government’s disease control agency recommended identifying Covid-19 patient clusters and properly quarantining them to prevent a rapid spread of infections.
The seven-day moving average of daily deaths in Bangladesh dropped further down to 111.8 on Saturday.
For a seven-day moving average, one has to take the data of the last one week, add them up, and divide it by seven. The most common application of moving average is to identify trend direction.
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The seven-day moving average of daily deaths in Bangladesh dropped further down to 111.8 on Saturday.
For a seven-day moving average, one has to take the data of the last one week, add them up, and divide it by seven. The most common application of moving average is to identify trend direction.
In terms of deaths per division, Dhaka logged the highest, with 34 fatalities, followed by Chittagong with 21.
Khulna division counted nine deaths while Sylhet counted six, Barisal four, Rangpur three, Mymensingh two and Rajshahi one.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.74%.
File photo of a patient is being taken to the RMCH. The photo was taken on Wednesday, June 16, 2021 | Dhaka Tribune
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.74%.
Dhaka also logged the highest number of cases among the divisions with 2,348 new infections, followed by Chittagong with 554.
The health authorities in Bangladesh reported the first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a strain of coronavirus named Sars-CoV-2, on March 8, 2020.
The fast spreading coronavirus has claimed more than 4.5 million lives and infected over 216 million people across the world till Saturday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
As many as 193.354 million people have recovered from Covid-19, which has spread to 220 countries and territories across the planet.
