Covid-19: 7-day moving average of daily deaths below 10

The 7-day moving average of daily deaths in Bangladesh has been below 10 for six days straight.

Bangladesh has recorded 585 new cases and eight more deaths over the last 24 hours till Monday afternoon.

With that, the current death toll in Bangladesh stands at 8,416, with a total of 546,801 infections.

As of Monday, the rolling average stands at 8.57. On February 24, the 7-day moving average went below 10 (9.29), for the first time in months ever since death toll went up from May. The rolling average on May 12, last year, stood at 9.57 before skyrocketing.

For a 7-day moving average, one has to take the data of the last one week, add them up, and divide it by 7. The most common application of moving average is to identify trend direction.

A press release was issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Monday.

Courtesy: ourworldindata.org

The overall test positivity percentage till Monday was, however, 13.48% with a total of 4,057,597 tests being conducted across the country till now.

As many as 13570 samples, including the pending ones, were tested in the 216 authorized labs — government and private — across the country.

Of the five deceased – four men and four women – four were from Dhaka division and four from Chittagong.

All of them died while undergoing treatment at different hospitals across the country.

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The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far still stands at 1.54%.

The health authorities said 873 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.

So far, 497,797 patients – 91.04% of all infected – have made full recovery across the country.

On March 8, the health authorities in Bangladesh reported the first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a new coronavirus strain which was later named Sars-CoV-2.

The novel coronavirus broke out in China's Wuhan city in late December of 2019 and quickly spread throughout the world, becoming a pandemic in less than three months.

The fast-spreading coronavirus has claimed more than 2,544,234 lives and infected as many as 114,737,325 people across the world till Monday afternoon, according to worldometer, a reference website that provides counters and real-time statistics for diverse topics.

As many as 90,293,996 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has affected 219 countries and territories across the planet.