Covid deaths, infections jump after dip

The number of Covid-19 deaths and new cases have increased in the 24 hours until 8:00am yesterday after a dip in the previous three days.

Yesterday, a total of 25 people died due to Covid-19, according to a press release from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

In the previous day (Saturday), 22 Covid-19 patients died.

With the latest count, the total number of deaths due to Covid-19 rose to 7,781. This was around 1.49 percent of all confirmed cases in the country.

At least 1,072 people tested positive for the viral infection in those 24 hours yesterday.  The number of newly infected was 692 the day before.

On Friday, 785 people tested positive, according to the DGHS data.

With this, the total number of confirmed cases rose to 5,22,453.

Against a total of 12,920 tests in 181 labs across the country, the positivity rate was 8.29 percent.

In the same 24 hours, meanwhile, a total of 737 Covid-19 patients recovered from their illnesses, raising the number of recoveries to 4,66,801.

The total number of recoveries is equal to more than 89 percent of all confirmed cases.

Of the deceased yesterday, 17 were males and eight were females.

Two of them were aged between 41 and 50 years, six between 51 and 60, and 17 were above 60 years, added the release.