Covid-19: Bangladesh logs 3,447 infections, 7 deaths in a day
The daily infection rate stands at 14.35%
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Tribune Desk
Publish : 15 Jan 2022, 05:43 PMUpdate : 15 Jan 2022, 09:47 PM
Bangladesh recorded 3,447 new Covid-19 cases and seven deaths in 24 hours to 8am on Saturday.
With the fresh cases reported after testing 24,028 samples, the daily positivity rate declined slightly to 14.35% from Friday’s 14.66% during the period, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The death toll in the country stands at 28,136 with mortality rate at 1.74% while the total caseload stands at 1,604,664, according to the Directorate General of Health Services.
Moreover, 294 people recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries to 1,552,600.
The seven-day moving average of single-day deaths in Bangladesh was 5.28 on Saturday.
Four deaths were reported in Dhaka division while two in Sylhet and another in Barisal division.
Health authorities marked Dhaka as a red zone owing to its high number of cases for the last few days. The capital logged 2,873 new infections on Saturday.
Bangladesh reported its first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a strain of coronavirus later named Sars-CoV-2, on March 8, 2020. The first death was reported 10 days later.
The country reported the highest number of daily fatalities of 264 on August 10 last year, while the highest daily caseload was 16,230 on July 28 last year.
Amid the growing concern over the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus, the government on January 13 came out with the restrictions on movement of people and public transport vehicles.
Bangladesh’s total tally of Omicron cases reached 33 with detection of three more cases till Wednesday, according to GISAID, a global initiative on sharing all influenza data.
A large number of the population has also been vaccinated with the country crossing the landmark of administering 100 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines on December 1, nearly in 10 months after kicking off a nationwide campaign.
The fast-spreading coronavirus has so far claimed over 5.4 million lives and infected over 279 million people throughout the world, according to Worldometer.
More than 250 million people have recovered from the disease, which has affected 223 countries and territories across the planet.
Covid-19: Bangladesh logs 3,447 infections, 7 deaths in a day
The daily infection rate stands at 14.35%
Bangladesh recorded 3,447 new Covid-19 cases and seven deaths in 24 hours to 8am on Saturday.
With the fresh cases reported after testing 24,028 samples, the daily positivity rate declined slightly to 14.35% from Friday’s 14.66% during the period, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The death toll in the country stands at 28,136 with mortality rate at 1.74% while the total caseload stands at 1,604,664, according to the Directorate General of Health Services.
Moreover, 294 people recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries to 1,552,600.
The seven-day moving average of single-day deaths in Bangladesh was 5.28 on Saturday.
Four deaths were reported in Dhaka division while two in Sylhet and another in Barisal division.
Health authorities marked Dhaka as a red zone owing to its high number of cases for the last few days. The capital logged 2,873 new infections on Saturday.
Bangladesh reported its first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a strain of coronavirus later named Sars-CoV-2, on March 8, 2020. The first death was reported 10 days later.
The country reported the highest number of daily fatalities of 264 on August 10 last year, while the highest daily caseload was 16,230 on July 28 last year.
Amid the growing concern over the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus, the government on January 13 came out with the restrictions on movement of people and public transport vehicles.
Bangladesh’s total tally of Omicron cases reached 33 with detection of three more cases till Wednesday, according to GISAID, a global initiative on sharing all influenza data.
A large number of the population has also been vaccinated with the country crossing the landmark of administering 100 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines on December 1, nearly in 10 months after kicking off a nationwide campaign.
The fast-spreading coronavirus has so far claimed over 5.4 million lives and infected over 279 million people throughout the world, according to Worldometer.
More than 250 million people have recovered from the disease, which has affected 223 countries and territories across the planet.
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