Bangladesh has reported another 45 Coronavirus-related deaths with 1,285 fresh cases in the last 24 hours until Saturday morning amid concern after the detection of the first case of highly contagious Indian Covid-19 variant in the country.
According to the new data released by The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), the new fatalities pushed the country’s death toll to 11,878 As the mortality rate remains static at 1.54 percent.
Besides, the DGHS data also said, 1,285 fresh cases were identified during the period after testing 14,703 samples, taking the total case count to 772,127.
The country’s infection rate fell to 8.74 percent, which was 9.89% a day ago, according to the DGHS.
The number of Covid-19 deaths came down to as low as 50 after over a month on Wednesday as Bangladesh saw 50 deaths earlier on April 1. It had kept rising since then.
Bangladesh has so far carried out 5,613,979 nationwide tests since reporting its first coronavirus cases on March 8 last year and the first death on the 18th of that month.
