Staff Correspondent
Bangladesh registered 26 more deaths from Covid-19 and 1,504 new cases of the deadly disease between Thursday and Friday mornings.
Disclosing the latest data in a media statement on Friday afternoon, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said another 1,529 patients recovered from Covid-19 through treatment during the same period.
With the latest development, the country’s death toll since March last year reached 12,310, the total number of cases 786,698 and the number of total recovery 729,039 patients, which is 92.67% of all infected.
Of the 26 deceased — 19 men and seven women — three were from the Dhaka Division, six from Chittagong, 10 from Khulna, four from Rajshahi, one each from Sylhet, Rangpur, and Mymensingh divisions.
Twenty-three died at public hospitals while three died in private hospitals.
So far, 8,903 men (72.32%) and 3,407 women (27.68%) have died of Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected currently stands at 1.56%.
As many as 18,294 samples, including some pending ones, were tested at 482 authorized labs — government and private — across the country between 8am Thursday and 8am Friday.
The latest figures showed an infection rate of 8.22%.
To date, 5,793,177 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 13.58%.
On March 8, 2020, the health authorities in Bangladesh had reported the first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a new coronavirus strain that was later named Sars-CoV-2.
The fast-spreading virus claimed over 3,446,100 lives and infected more than 165,897,800 people across the world till Tuesday evening, according to worldometer. At the same time, over 146,607,500 people also recovered from Covid-19.
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.
