Death toll reaches 11,644 Bangladesh has registered 65 deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours until Monday morning.
With the latest fatalities, the total number of deaths reached 11,644 in the country.
The country also logged a total of 763,682 coronavirus cases with 1,739 people testing positive over the same period.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) revealed the latest figures on Covid-19 in the country with a press release on Monday afternoon.
Of the 65 deceased – 42 men and 23 women – 32 were from Dhaka division, 17 from Chittagong, six from Sylhet, four from Khulna, and two each from Rajshahi, Barisal, and Rangpur divisions.
Of them, 45 patients died in government hospitals, 15 in private hospitals, and five at home. So far, 8,476 men (72.79%) and 3,168 women (27.21%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
Since the beginning, 6,784 people have died in Dhaka division, 2,116 in Chittagong, 607 in Rajshahi, 712 in Khulna, 353 in Barisal, 401 in Sylhet, 428 in Rangpur, and 243 in Mymensingh. The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.52%. The DGHS said 19,452 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the past 24 hours. As many as 19,431 samples were tested in the 420 authorized labs — government and private — across the country and 1,739 new patients were confirmed. The latest figures show an infection rate of 8.95%. To date, 5,518,410 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 13.84% so far. The health authorities said 3,834 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours. So far, 691,162 patients – 90.50% – have made full recovery across the country. 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 which was later named Sars-CoV-2. The country also 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 3,218,006 lives and infected 153,565,239 people across the world till Monday afternoon, according to Worldometer. As many as 130,919,428 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has spread to 220 countries and territories across the planet.
