Health authorities in Bangladesh have registered 6 more deaths and 151 more infections from Covid-19 across the country in last 24 hours to Saturday morning.
With the latest data, the official tally showed that the virus killed 27,918 people and infected 1572,278 so far, according to the statement issued by the Director General of Health Services (DGHS).
The country reported 1.11 percent Covid-19 positive cases as 13,569 samples were tested in the past 24 hours,” Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said in its routine daily statement.
In the past 24 hours, the combined figure of coronavirus in Dhaka city and upazilas of the district is 101 while two Covid-19 deaths were reported during the period.
The recovery count rose to 1536,303 after another 192 patients were discharged from the hospitals during the past one day.
From the beginning of the pandemic, 97.71 percent Covid-19 patients recovered among the infected people while 1.78 percent died, the DGHS statistics showed.
The DGHS said among the total 27,918 fatalities, 12,176 occurred in Dhaka division, 5,669 in Chattogram, 2,047 in Rajshahi, 3,604 in Khulna, 946 in Barishal, 1,267 in Sylhet, 1,365 in Rangpur and 844 in Mymensingh divisions.
