Covid-19: Bangladesh logs 5,222 infections, 8 deaths in a day
The daily infection rate stands at 17.82%
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Tribune Desk
Publish : 16 Jan 2022, 06:11 PMUpdate : 16 Jan 2022, 06:28 PM
Bangladesh recorded 5,222 new Covid-19 cases and eight deaths in 24 hours to 8am on Sunday.
With the fresh cases reported after testing 29,305 samples, the daily positivity rate increased to 17.82% from Saturday’s 14.35% during the period, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The country last logged 5,249 cases and 114 deaths on August 24, last year with a positivity rate at 15.12 per cent in 24 hours.
Bangladesh is currently seeing a surge of Covid-19 cases as health authorities logged 31,802 infections in the last 15 days since January 1.
The death toll in the country stands at 28,144 with mortality rate of 1.74% while the total caseload stands at 1,617,711, according to the Directorate General of Health Services.
Moreover, 293 people recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries to 1,552,893.
Four deaths were reported in Dhaka division while three in Chittagong and another in Sylhet division.
The seven-day moving average of single-day deaths in Bangladesh was six on Sunday.
Health authorities marked Dhaka as a red zone owing to its high number of cases for the last few days.
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 5.5 million lives and infected over 327 million people throughout the world, according to Worldometer.
More than 266 million people have recovered from the disease, which has affected 223 countries and territories across the planet.
Covid-19: Bangladesh logs 5,222 infections, 8 deaths in a day
The daily infection rate stands at 17.82%
Bangladesh recorded 5,222 new Covid-19 cases and eight deaths in 24 hours to 8am on Sunday.
With the fresh cases reported after testing 29,305 samples, the daily positivity rate increased to 17.82% from Saturday’s 14.35% during the period, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The country last logged 5,249 cases and 114 deaths on August 24, last year with a positivity rate at 15.12 per cent in 24 hours.
Bangladesh is currently seeing a surge of Covid-19 cases as health authorities logged 31,802 infections in the last 15 days since January 1.
The death toll in the country stands at 28,144 with mortality rate of 1.74% while the total caseload stands at 1,617,711, according to the Directorate General of Health Services.
Moreover, 293 people recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries to 1,552,893.
Four deaths were reported in Dhaka division while three in Chittagong and another in Sylhet division.
The seven-day moving average of single-day deaths in Bangladesh was six on Sunday.
Health authorities marked Dhaka as a red zone owing to its high number of cases for the last few days.
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 5.5 million lives and infected over 327 million people throughout the world, according to Worldometer.
More than 266 million people have recovered from the disease, which has affected 223 countries and territories across the planet.
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