Bangladesh registered a single-day death of 101 from Covid-19 for the second consecutive day in 24 hours until Saturday, pushing up the total fatalities to 10,283.

The country shattered its previous all records of single-day death count with 101 fatalities on Friday.

With the latest figure, the mortality rate rose to 1.44 percent, the Directorate General of Health Services said in a handout.

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However, 3,473 new cases were detected during the period as the number of tests declined significantly in the last 5-6 days. Only 16, 185 samples were tested during the period.

The handout said the daily infection rate fell to 21.46 percent from Friday’s 23.36 percent.

Bangladesh reported its first coronavirus cases on March 8 last year and the first death on the 18th of that month.

With the new cases, the total caseload reached 715,252 while the total number of recoveries was 608,815, (85.12 percent of all patients) including 5,907 in the last 24 hours.

1,237 lost lives in 17 days

The virus claimed 568 lives in January this year, 281 in February and 638 in March.

Between April 1 and April 17, the country registered 1,237 deaths and 100,484 new cases.

On Thursday, the country recorded 94 deaths, a day after registering the highest number of single-day fatalities (96). The figure was 69 on Tuesday, 83 on Monday, 78 on Sunday and 77 on Saturday.

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81 pc victims above 50

Of the latest victims, 69 are men and 32 are women. Of them, 99 died at hospitals.

Fifty-eight out of the 101 victims are above the age of 60. So far, 7,635 men and 2,648 women have died from the virus.

In terms of age group, 56.36 percent are aged more than 60 years while 24.62 percent are aged between 51 and 60 years. Together, these two groups account for 80.98 percent of the total fatalities.

Dhaka has recorded 58.15 percent of the fatalities with 67 deaths, followed by Chattogram’s 18 percent fatality rate with 23 deaths.

On Saturday morning, there were 157 ICU beds available in the country.

There are 10,667 general beds for coronavirus patients and 5,423 of them are currently occupied. On the other hand, there are only 823 ICU beds and 666 of them are occupied at the moment.