After nearly five weeks, Bangladesh’s daily coronavirus death toll dropped to single digits on Monday.
In the 24 hours to 8am, the health authorities reported nine deaths, taking the overall fatality from the pandemic to 28,974. On January 20, the country recorded four fatalities.
The caseload rose by 1,951 during the same time to stand at 1,935,242
As many as 28,097 samples were tested across the country for a positivity rate of 6.94%. The infection rate stood at 7.82% on Sunday.
Nationwide another 8,674 people recovered from the disease, taking the total recovery to 1,763,258.
The latest figures put the mortality rate at 1.5% and the recovery at 91.11%.
Of the deaths, six were reported in Chittagong and three in Dhaka. Of them, five were male and the rest female.
The seven-day moving average of single-day deaths in Bangladesh was 19.42 on Monday.
On Saturday, health authorities reported 13 deaths from coronavirus with 2,150 new infections.
The country has been witnessing a downtrend in terms of infections for the last 14 days straight.
The infection rate in the country on Friday dipped below 10% for the first time since the surge in Covid-19 cases at the turn of the year.
Meanwhile, the government on Sunday decided to lift the Covid-19 restrictions, imposed last month amid Omicron fears, from Tuesday. However, people will have to continue wearing masks outdoor as per the latest decision.
On January 28, Bangladesh logged its earlier 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.
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.
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 5.9 million lives and infected over 425 million people throughout the world, according to Worldometer.
More than 351 million people have recovered from the disease, which has affected 223 countries and territories across the planet.
