Bangladesh logged three more Covid-linked deaths and another 229 cases of infections in 24 hours till Tuesday morning.

The country reported two deaths caused by the deadly virus, the lowest this year, and another 214 cases on Monday.

The daily-case positivity rate increased to 1.14 per cent from Monday’s 1.08 per cent.

However, the mortality rate remained static at 1.78 per cent.

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The fresh cases were detected after testing 20,048 samples, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Besides, today’s all three deceased were women.

With the fresh numbers, the Covid-19 fatalities reached 27,873 while the caseload climbed to 1,569,982, according to the DGHS.

Also, the recovery rate increased to 97.70 per cent with the recovery of 211 more patients during the period.

On the 43th epidemiological week of pandemic from October 25 to 31, 45 covid-related deaths were reported in the country.

Thirty-nine of them did not receive any Covid vaccine while six were vaccinated.

Of them, 23 had comorbidities which have declined to 12.5% from the last epidemiological week. Comorbidity means the simultaneous presence of two or more diseases or medical conditions in a patient.

On March 18, 2020, Bangladesh logged its first Covid-19 related death.

Vaccination drive in Bangladesh

So far, 2,95,64,961 people have been fully vaccinated in the country while 4,24,63,259 received the first dose as of Monday, according to the DGHS.

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Meanwhile, the campaign to vaccinate the school students of the 12-17 age group against Covid-19 began in Dhaka on Monday.

The vaccination campaign will be conducted at eight centres in the capital although it was scheduled to begin at 12 centres in the city. Other centres did not get approval due to lack of adequate facilities.