Infection rate now 5.57pc
Bangladesh saw a daily infection rate of 5.57 percent with 762 new cases reported in 24 hours ending at 8:00am yesterday.
The country recorded the daily infection rate of 4.90 percent on January 14, 8.29 percent on January 10, 7.52 percent on January 4 and 8.18 percent on January 1.
Bangladesh has recorded 526,485 cases so far. And the country's fatality number rose to 7,862 and death rate to 1.49 percent, with 13 Covid-19 deaths in the last 24 hours, since the first death was reported on March 18.
So far, 3,431,792 tests, including 13,678 new ones, have been carried out. The overall infection rate stood at 15.34 percent, said a press release of the Directorate General of Health Services.
Meanwhile, 471,123 patients -- 89.48 percent -- have recovered so far.
The infection number reached the 500,000-mark on December 20. The first cases were reported on March 8. On December 12, the death toll exceeded 7,000.
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