Health authorities in Bangladesh have registered 164 deaths and 9,964 new infections from Covid-19 in last 25 hours to Monday morning Bangladesh.
With the latest figures, the country’s death toll mounted to 15,229 while the caseload reached 954,881, according to a handout provided by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The Covid-19 positivity rate also rose by this time setting at 29.30 percent and the death rate remained unchanged at 1.59 percent for the last few weeks.
A good number of patients also recovered during this period as the test result of 5,185 patients came out negative Monday and the recovery rate stands at 87.87 percent.
Meanwhile, the health department tested a large number of 34,002 samples in 605 labs across the country.
Khulna division again saw the highest number of deaths reporting 55 deaths in the last 24 hours. This is for the tenth day in a row that the bordering area witnessed the country’s highest deaths there.
Besides, the Dhaka division also saw a large number of daily deaths as 40 people died there in the preceding 24 hours.
Moreover, the Chattogram division reported 18 deaths, Rajshahi and Rangpur 16 each, Barishal nine, Sylhet eight, and Mymensingh division saw two deaths from Covid19.
Among the latest victims, 109 were men, and 55 were women. Of the victims, 148 died in different hospitals across the country while 15 at home. Besides, one patient died on the way to hospital.
The country’s maiden cases were reported on 8 March last year and the first death from the virus was reported on 18 March.
