Covid takes 17 more lives
Seventeen people died of Covid-19 infection in the past 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, read a press release of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
With this, the total number of deaths rose to 6,322 which was 1.43 percent of all confirmed cases.
In the same 24-hour period, a total of 2,275 new infections were recorded, the second highest single-day count in last ten weeks.
On Thursday, the highest 2,364 people tested positive for the virus.
The total number of infected people to 443,434, according to the press release.
Against a total of 15,607 tests in those 24 hours, the positivity rate was 14.58 percent, the highest in the last month.
With this, the overall positivity rate was 16.91 percent.
According to experts, the daily positivity rate is one of the important parameters to measure the transmission level of the virus.
If the rate remains below five percent and does not increase, it means the transmission is under control, epidemiologists said.
Throughout the last two months till last week, the positivity rate was below 12 percent almost every day and started increasing over the last week.
Since last month, countries across Europe and America have been witnessing a harsh spike in Covid-19 cases with the advent of winter even after successfully slowing the outbreak earlier in the year.
Observing a rising trend of cases and deaths, experts in Bangladesh stressed the need for immediate acceleration of scientific virus curbing measures.
Meanwhile, a total of 1,709 Covid-19 patients have recovered in the same 24 hours.
The total number of recoveries now stands at 358,431 and the recovery rate at 80.83 percent.
Among the 17 dead, there were 11 men and six women.
One of the dead aged between 11 and 20 years, one between 21 and 30, one between 31 and 40, two between 41 and 50, two between 51 and 60, and 10 above 60 years, added the release.
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