Covid-19: 32 deaths, 1,470 cases recorded in last 24hrs

Bangladesh recorded 32 more deaths and 1,470 new cases of novel coronavirus from different parts of the country including capital Dhaka in the last 24 hours ending 8:00am on Monday.

With the updated statistics, the total death toll of the deadly virus rose to 7, 312 while the total number of infections stood at 5, 02,183, Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said it in a press release this afternoon.

A total of 15,669 samples were tested at government authorised laboratories across the country in the last 24 hours and 1,470 samples were found positive for coronavirus, the press release said.

Around 2,167 people were discharged from different hospitals in the same time after their recovery from the infection, taking the total number of recovery to 4, 39,694, the DGHS said.

According to the data, the infection rate stands at 9.38 percent while the recovery rate at 87.56 percent in the same period.

In Bangladesh, the first coronavirus case was detected on March 8 and the first death case was reported just after 10 days of the same month.

According to the worldometers, around 17, 00, 679 people have so far died while 7, 72, 23, 126 people were infected from the virus across the world since its outbreak.