Bangladesh registered 13,158 new Covid-19 cases and 31 deaths in the 24 hours till Tuesday morning.
The latest infections were registered after testing 45,031 samples, yielding a positivity rate of 29.17%, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The fresh deaths took the country’s total fatalities to 28,425 while the caseload mounted to 1,811,987.
Nationwide another 2,721 people recovered from the disease, taking the total recovery to 1,570,934. With the latest count, the recovery rate stands at 86.7% while the fatality rate at 1.57%.
Dhaka, the epicentre of the virus, logged 7,930 cases and accounted for19 of the deaths.
Chittagong division logged seven deaths, Sylhet recorded two while Rajshahi, Khulna, and Rangpur each counted one.
The second-highest number of infections are also in Chittagong with 1,667 cases, followed by Rajshahi with 1,023 cases, Khulna 753, Sylhet 663, Rangpur 399, Barisal 377, and Mymensingh 342 cases.
With 31 new fatalities, the seven-day moving average of single-day deaths in Bangladesh was 24.14 on Tuesday.
Between July 7 and August 12, except for a few days, Bangladesh constantly recorded over 200 deaths a day.
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.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh’s total tally of Omicron cases reached 69 with the detection of seven more cases till Monday, according to GISAID, a global initiative on sharing all influenza data.
The health authorities marked 12 districts, including Dhaka, as red zones owing to their high infection rates between 10% and 29%.
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.
Amid growing concerns over the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus, the government on January 13 announced restrictions on the movement of people and public transport vehicles. Schools and colleges went on a hiatus while government and private offices started operating with half manpower to curb the spread of the virus.
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 10 months after launching a nationwide campaign.
The fast-spreading coronavirus has so far claimed over 5.6 million lives and infected over 363 million people throughout the world, according to Worldometer.
More than 287 million people have recovered from the disease, which has affected 223 countries and territories across the planet.
