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Covid-19: Bangladesh reports 19 more deaths, 1,884 new cases
Amid rise in Covid -19 infections in Bangladesh, health authorities on Friday reported 1,884 new cases in 24 hours, pushing the country’s total tally to 487,849.
Covid-19: Bangladesh reports 24 more deaths, 2,159 new cases
Amid rise in Covid -19 infections in Bangladesh, health authoroties onWednesday reported 2,159 new cases in 24 hours, pushing the country’s total tally to 484,104.
24 more Covid-19 deaths, 2,252 infections in Bangladesh
Bangladesh saw the deaths of 20 more men and four women from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours until early Friday.
Don’t be panicked about possible second wave of Covid-19: Minister
Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Monday urged the people not to be panicked, assuring them that the government has taken preparations to tackle the possible second wave of Covid-19.
The second wave has already occurred in many countries and it may hit Bangladesh as well, he said.
“We’ll face the second wave of Covid-19 with concerted efforts,” he said at a programme at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) in the afternoon. “We’ve taken adequate preparations to this end.”
Minister Maleque said they are taking steps to procure vaccines as directed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
He noted that the government is spending Tk 15,000 on each Covid-19 patient and Tk 47,000 for each Intensive Care Unit patient in hospitals. “We’re spending on average Tk 1-1.5 lakh for each coronavirus patient, he said.
Covid-19 in Bangladesh
Bangladesh on Monday recorded 1,736 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours, pushing the caseload to 4,109,88. Besides, 25 more patients died from Covid-19 during the period, taking the fatalities to 5,966.
So far, 327,901 patients have recovered -- 1,961 in the last 24 hours. The fatality rate in Bangladesh is 1.45 percent, the Directorate General of Health Services said.
Bangladesh reported its first cases on March 8. The number of cases reached the 300,000-mark on August 26. The first death was reported on March 18 and the death toll exceeded 5,000 on Sept 22.
So far, 23,61,702 tests have been carried out, including 12,891 new tests, and 17.4 percent of them have turned out to be positive.
Global Situation
The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases has surpassed 46.4 million globally with nearly 1.2 million fatalities on Monday, according to the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University.
The death toll from Covid-19 in the world reached 1,199,693 while the total caseload surpassed 46,437,615 in the morning.
The US has registered 230,967 deaths with 9,201,500 infections – both the highest in the world. India comes in second in terms of cases (8,184,082), while the country's death toll soared to 122,111.
Coronavirus cases were first reported in China in December last year. The World Health Organisation declared it a pandemic in March.
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Covid-19: Death toll surges past 5k in Bangladesh
Bangladesh on Tuesday saw the total number of Covid-19 deaths to go above 5,000-mark as health authorities reported 28 new fatalities in 24 hours, raising the total to 5,007.
Over 70pc Covid patients in Bangladesh recover; 41 more die
The recovery rate from Covid-19 in Bangladesh reached 70.14 percent on Thursday as 2,746 patients got cured from the deadly disease in the last 24 hours till 8 am on Thursday, pushing up the number of total recoveries since March to 2,33,550.
Bangladesh’s Covid-19 cases near 3.3 lakh
Six months after Bangladesh announced the detection of its first coronavirus patients, the number of officially confirmed Covid-19 cases inched closer to 3.3 lakh on Tuesday.
The health authorities announced the detection of 1,892 new cases, taking the tally to 329,251. Among them, 4,552 have died – 36 in the last 24 hours.
Bangladesh announced its first cases on March 8 and the first death on March 18.
In the last 24 hours, 14,973 samples were tested. So far 1,659,697 samples have been tested in the country and 19.84 percent of them have turned out to be positive.
During this period, 3,236 patients have recovered, taking the number of recoveries to 227,809. The recovery rate is now over 69 percent, according to a press release by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Bangladesh reports 32 more Covid deaths; total cases hit 3,19,686
Health authorities in Bangladesh reported 2,158 new cases of Covid-19 on Thursday after testing 14,422 samples in the last 24 hours.
Coronavirus: Nearly 2 lakh patients recover in Bangladesh
The health authorities on Friday said 3,378 coronavirus patients have recovered, pushing Bangladesh's total number of recovered cases to 1,96,836.
Global Covid-19 death toll crosses 700,000
The global Covid-19 deaths surpassed 700,000 on Wednesday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.