Bangladesh logs 397 Covid-19 infections, one death in a day
Daily infection rate remains over 2%
FILE PHOTO: After being closed for a year and half, Bangladesh reopened schools and colleges in September 2021 as the coronavirus infection rate dropped Mehedi Hasan/Dhaka Tribune
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Publish : 28 Dec 2021, 06:06 PMUpdate : 28 Dec 2021, 06:06 PM
Bangladesh logged one more death from Covid-19 and 397 new cases in the 24 hours to Tuesday morning.
With the detection of the new cases after testing 18,938 samples, the daily test positivity rate slightly declined to 2.1% from Monday’s 2.16%, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The recovery rate remained static at 97.73% with the recovery of 294 more patients during the 24-hour period.
The latest additions took the country’s total fatalities to 28,062, total caseload to 1,584,023, and the total number of recoveries to 1,548,044.
According to the official data, the country’s overall Covid-19 mortality rate until Tuesday morning stood at 1.77% and the overall positivity lowered to 13.86%.
The seven-day moving average of single-day deaths in Bangladesh was 1.57 on Tuesday.
The only single death in the country was recorded in Dhaka division.
Of the new patients, Dhaka logged 340 cases, the highest among the divisions. No new cases were reported in 32 districts of the country.
Though the deaths remained below five since December 13, the daily cases remained mostly over 250, according to data provided by the DGHS.
The country reported the highest number of daily fatalities of 264 on August 5 this year, while the highest daily caseload was 16,230 on July 28 this year.
Bangladesh officially began the dispensation of booster doses of a Covid-19 vaccine on a limited scale from Tuesday morning.
Around 71.14 million people in the country have received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. Of them, some 49.14 million have taken both doses, according to DGHS data collected till Monday.
Meanwhile, some 54 people received the booster dose against the virus in the country.
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%.
Bangladesh lifted nationwide lockdown on August 11. However, experts have warned against complacency as many countries are seeing a surge in infections yet again.
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.
Meanwhile, the discovery of a new variant, Omicron, has triggered a global alarm.
Called B.1.1.529, Omicron is the fifth variant of concern designated by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Bangladesh reported Omicron cases in two Bangladeshi women cricketers who returned from Zimbabwe earlier in the month.
The fast-spreading coronavirus has so far claimed over 5.4 million lives and infected over 279 million people throughout the world, according to Worldometer.
More than 250 million people have recovered from the disease, which has affected 223 countries and territories across the planet.
Bangladesh logs 397 Covid-19 infections, one death in a day
Bangladesh logged one more death from Covid-19 and 397 new cases in the 24 hours to Tuesday morning.
With the detection of the new cases after testing 18,938 samples, the daily test positivity rate slightly declined to 2.1% from Monday’s 2.16%, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The recovery rate remained static at 97.73% with the recovery of 294 more patients during the 24-hour period.
The latest additions took the country’s total fatalities to 28,062, total caseload to 1,584,023, and the total number of recoveries to 1,548,044.
According to the official data, the country’s overall Covid-19 mortality rate until Tuesday morning stood at 1.77% and the overall positivity lowered to 13.86%.
The seven-day moving average of single-day deaths in Bangladesh was 1.57 on Tuesday.
The only single death in the country was recorded in Dhaka division.
Of the new patients, Dhaka logged 340 cases, the highest among the divisions. No new cases were reported in 32 districts of the country.
Though the deaths remained below five since December 13, the daily cases remained mostly over 250, according to data provided by the DGHS.
The country reported the highest number of daily fatalities of 264 on August 5 this year, while the highest daily caseload was 16,230 on July 28 this year.
Bangladesh officially began the dispensation of booster doses of a Covid-19 vaccine on a limited scale from Tuesday morning.
Around 71.14 million people in the country have received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. Of them, some 49.14 million have taken both doses, according to DGHS data collected till Monday.
Meanwhile, some 54 people received the booster dose against the virus in the country.
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%.
Bangladesh lifted nationwide lockdown on August 11. However, experts have warned against complacency as many countries are seeing a surge in infections yet again.
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.
Meanwhile, the discovery of a new variant, Omicron, has triggered a global alarm.
Called B.1.1.529, Omicron is the fifth variant of concern designated by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Bangladesh reported Omicron cases in two Bangladeshi women cricketers who returned from Zimbabwe earlier in the month.
The fast-spreading coronavirus has so far claimed over 5.4 million lives and infected over 279 million people throughout the world, according to Worldometer.
More than 250 million people have recovered from the disease, which has affected 223 countries and territories across the planet.