The health authorities have logged 43 deaths from the coronavirus on Tuesday, taking the total fatality of the pandemic in Bangladesh 28,670.
The caseload rose to 18,79,255 with 8,354 new infections reported in the 24 hours to 8am, according to figures released by the Directorate General of Health Services.
The downward trend of test positivity rate continued on Tuesday as health authorities reported 20.03% infection rate after testing as many as 41,698 samples in the 24-hour period.
Another 10,800 people across the country recovered from the disease, taking the total recoveries to 16,22,857.
The latest figures put the mortality rate at 1.53% and the rate of recovery at 86.36%.
Among the new deceased, 26 were men and 17 women.
Fifteen deaths were reported in Dhaka division while 13 in Khulna, 11 in Chittagong, two in Rajshahi, and one each in Rangpur and Mymensingh divisions.
With 43 new fatalities, the seven-day moving average of single-day deaths in Bangladesh was 30.85 on Tuesday.
In January, the country reported 322 deaths and 213,294 new cases while 19,112 recovered from the disease, according to the DGHS.
On January 28, Bangladesh logged its highest daily positivity rate at 33.37% reporting 15,440 cases and 20 deaths.
Besides, the country registered the highest daily caseload of 16,230 on July 28 last year, while the highest number of daily fatalities was 264 on August 10 last year.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh’s total tally of Omicron cases reached 187 with the report of 81 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 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 5.7 million lives and infected over 398 million people throughout the world, according to Worldometer.
More than 318 million people have recovered from the disease, which has affected 223 countries and territories across the planet.
