Bangladesh reported four more Covid-linked deaths with 436 fresh cases in 24 hours till Monday morning, the health authorities said.

The daily positivity rate slightly decreased to 2.18 per cent from Sunday’s 2.63 per after testing 20,009 samples during the period, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

On Sunday, Bangladesh reported eight Covid-linked deaths with 529 fresh cases.

The fresh numbers took the country’s total fatalities to 29,089 while the caseload to 19,47,702.

Of the 52 deaths recorded from February 28 to March 6, some 40.4  per cent received Covid vaccines while 59.6 per cent did not, the DGHS mentioned.

Comorbidities among the deceased patients declined to 4.5 per cent this week compared to the previous one. Comorbidity means the simultaneous presence of two or more diseases or medical conditions in a patient.

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Among the new deceased, three were men and one was woman.

Three of the deaths were reported from Dhaka division while one was Sylhet division.

Meanwhile, the mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.49 per cent.

However, the recovery rate rose to 94.82 per cent with the recovery of 3,546  more patients during the 24-hour period.

On January 28, Bangladesh logged its previous highest daily positivity rate at 33.37 per cent reporting 15,440 cases and 20 deaths.

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On December 9 last year, Bangladesh logged zero Covid-related death after nearly three weeks.

The country reported first zero Covid-related death in a single day on November 20 last year along with 178 infections since the pandemic broke out in Bangladesh in March 2020.

Besides, the country registered the highest daily caseload of 16,230 on July 28 last year, while the highest number of daily fatalities was 264 on August 10 last year.