Daily infection rate stands at 23.40%, the highest in eight months
Bangladesh has registered over 7,000 Covid-19 cases for the second day in a row, as the recent surge of the deadly coronavirus continues in the country.
As many as 7,075 people tested positive in the 24 hours till Monday morning, taking the total number of infections to 644,439.
Health authorities on Sunday recorded the highest number of new Covid-19 cases (7,087) in a single day since the pandemic made landfall in the country in March last year.
The country also witnessed 52 deaths in the past 24 hours, according to the daily virus update released by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Monday afternoon. The total number of Covid-19 fatalities in the country now stands at 9,318.
The DGHS said 31,979 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours and 30,239 among them were tested at 227 authorized labs. The latest figures show an infection rate of 23.40%, which is the highest in eight months. On August 7 last year, the daily test positivity rate stood at 22.45%, while it was 23.43% on August 6. To date, 4,813,624 Covid-19 tests have been conducted in the country, amounting to an overall infection rate of 13.39%.
Highest ever 7-day moving average of deaths
According to official data, Bangladesh on Monday recorded its highest ever seven-day moving average of daily Covid-19 deaths – 52.71 – since the pandemic broke out in March 2020. It was 51.71 on Sunday.
Of the 52 deceased, including 34 men and 18 women, 40 were from Dhaka division, seven from Chittagong, and one each from Rajshahi, Khulna, Barisal, Sylhet, and Rangpur divisions.
Of the victims, 50 died at different hospitals and two at home.
So far, 7,004 men (75.17%) and 2,314 women (24.83%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 5,344 people have died in Dhaka division, 1,680 in Chittagong, 510 in Rajshahi, 593 in Khulna, 277 in Barisal, 328 in Sylhet, 381 in Rangpur, and 205 in Mymensingh. The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.45%. Health authorities said 2,932 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 555,414 patients – 86.19% – have made full recoveries across the country. Bangladesh entered a week-long lockdown from Monday in a desperate effort to curb the alarming recent spike of Covid-19 cases and deaths. On March 8, health authorities in Bangladesh reported the first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a new coronavirus strain named Sars-CoV-2. The country recorded its first fatality on March 18.
The novel coronavirus broke out in China’s Wuhan city in late December 2019 and quickly spread throughout the world, becoming a pandemic in less than three months.
The fast spreading coronavirus has claimed 2,867,746 lives and infected 132,001,209 people across the world till Monday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
As many as 106,301,580 people have recovered from Covid-19, which has spread to 219 countries and territories across the planet.
