Bangladesh sees decline in Covid-19 infection

Bangladesh sees a declining trend of coronavirus infection as the government’s health department reported 684 new cases in the country including capital Dhaka in the past 24 hours ending 8:00am on Saturday.

With the latest 684 cases, which is the lowest in the last eight months, the total number of infections rose to 515,184, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) in a statement issued this afternoon.

Besides, the lethal coronavirus claimed 23 more lives in the last 24 fours across the country, taking the total deaths toll to 7, 599, the press release said.

As many as 9,701 samples were tested at different government authorised laboratories in the country in the same period and 684 samples or 7.05 percent were found positive.

According to DGHS data, infection rate was 8.18 percent in the previous day.

Infection rate was 7.65 percent on December 31, 8.11 percent on 30, 8.10 percent on December 29 and 7.39 on December 28.

Meanwhile, 964 people who either were undergoing treatment at homes or hospitals across the country were declared free from the infection in the same time taking the total number of recovery to 459,620.

The current recovery rate stands at 89.21 percent which was 89 percent in the previous 24 hours.

Since its outbreak in China a year ago, Bangladesh recorded the first case of infection of the virus on March 8 and the first death case on March 18.

According to the worldometers, around 18, 36,451 people have so far died while 8, 44, 33,395 people were infected with the virus worldwide. 

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases has surpassed 81.94 million, rising by more than 470,000 in the past 24 hours around the world, according to the World Health Organisation.

The WHO data also shows that the number of fatalities rose by more than 9,900 to exceed 1.8 million globally.

The WHO statistics only take into account the officially confirmed cases of infection and deaths provided by countries.