Covid-19: Bangladesh records 3 more deaths, 205 fresh cases
Daily test positivity rate stands at 1.03%
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Tribune Desk
Publish : 28 Nov 2021, 06:19 PMUpdate : 28 Nov 2021, 06:20 PM
Bangladesh registered three deaths from Covid-19 in the 24 hours till 8am on Sunday.
Besides, in the 24-hour period, the country also recorded 205 new cases while seeing 299 patients recover, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The latest additions took the country’s death toll to 27,978, the total caseload to 1,575,748 and the total number of recoveries to 1,540,317.
A total 19,811 samples were tested at 836 labs across the country during the 24-hour period, yielding a positivity rate of 1.03%.
According to the data, the country’s overall Covid-19 mortality rate until Sunday morning remained static at 1.78%, overall recovery rate at 97.75%, and the overall positivity lowered to 14.52%.
The seven-day moving average of single-day deaths in Bangladesh was 3.57 on Sunday.
In terms of deaths per division, Dhaka logged the highest with two fatalities while Chittagong counted one.
Of the new patients, Dhaka logged 146 cases, the highest among the divisions. No new cases were reported in 30 districts of the country.
Around 58.87 million people in the country have received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. Of them, some 36.18 million have taken both doses, according to DGHS data collected till 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, however, has been witnessing infection rates below or around 2% for the past few weeks. The country last recorded an infection rate of over 3% on October 4 when the figure stood at 3.19%.
A large number of the population has also been vaccinated with the government expecting more vaccine doses by the end of this month from multiple sources.
However, experts have warned against complacency as many countries are seeing a surge in infections yet again.
Meanwhile, the discovery of a new variant, Omicron, has triggered a global alarm.
The new mutations were first discovered in South Africa and have since been detected in Belgium, Botswana, Israel and Hong Kong.
Called B.1.1.529, Omicron is the fifth variant of concern designated by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The fast-spreading coronavirus has so far claimed over 5.2 million lives and infected over 261 million people throughout the world, according to Worldometer.
More than 236 million people have recovered from the disease, which has affected 223 countries and territories across the planet.
Covid-19: Bangladesh records 3 more deaths, 205 fresh cases
Bangladesh registered three deaths from Covid-19 in the 24 hours till 8am on Sunday.
Besides, in the 24-hour period, the country also recorded 205 new cases while seeing 299 patients recover, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The latest additions took the country’s death toll to 27,978, the total caseload to 1,575,748 and the total number of recoveries to 1,540,317.
A total 19,811 samples were tested at 836 labs across the country during the 24-hour period, yielding a positivity rate of 1.03%.
According to the data, the country’s overall Covid-19 mortality rate until Sunday morning remained static at 1.78%, overall recovery rate at 97.75%, and the overall positivity lowered to 14.52%.
The seven-day moving average of single-day deaths in Bangladesh was 3.57 on Sunday.
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In terms of deaths per division, Dhaka logged the highest with two fatalities while Chittagong counted one.
Of the new patients, Dhaka logged 146 cases, the highest among the divisions. No new cases were reported in 30 districts of the country.
Around 58.87 million people in the country have received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. Of them, some 36.18 million have taken both doses, according to DGHS data collected till 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, however, has been witnessing infection rates below or around 2% for the past few weeks. The country last recorded an infection rate of over 3% on October 4 when the figure stood at 3.19%.
A large number of the population has also been vaccinated with the government expecting more vaccine doses by the end of this month from multiple sources.
However, experts have warned against complacency as many countries are seeing a surge in infections yet again.
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Meanwhile, the discovery of a new variant, Omicron, has triggered a global alarm.
The new mutations were first discovered in South Africa and have since been detected in Belgium, Botswana, Israel and Hong Kong.
Called B.1.1.529, Omicron is the fifth variant of concern designated by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The fast-spreading coronavirus has so far claimed over 5.2 million lives and infected over 261 million people throughout the world, according to Worldometer.
More than 236 million people have recovered from the disease, which has affected 223 countries and territories across the planet.