Health authorities in Bangladesh registered 1 more deaths and 342 more fresh infections cfrom Covid-19 across the country in last hours to Friday morning.
With the latest additions, the death toll reached 28,055 and the case tally increased to 15,82,710 in the country so far, according to the daily statement issued by the DGHS.
The current positivity rate rose above 2 percemnt again following a worldwide surge in Covid cases owing to the spread of new Omicron variant.
The health officials tested 16,913 samples across the country and recorded a 2.02 percent positivity rate in the preceding 24 hours.
Earlier, on 18 December, the positivity rate dropped below 1% followed by a steady rise since then.
Bangladesh saw two deaths and 382 cases on Thursday.
The Rajshahi division reported the country’s only death in the past 24 hours.
Also, 292 patients were declared free of Covid-19 during the last 24 hours, with a 97.74 percent recovery rate.
The country’s maiden cases were reported on 8 March last year and the first death from the virus was reported on 18 March.
