Covid-19: Bangladesh registers highest daily deaths in three months

Bangladesh has registered 40 new fatalities from the coronavirus infection, the highest daily count in three months, taking the death toll so far to 7,129.

Bangladesh has registered 40 new fatalities from the coronavirus infection, the highest daily count in three months, taking the death toll so far to 7,129, reports bdnews24.com.

The caseload jumped to 494,209 after 1,877 people tested positive for COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8 am Tuesday, according to data released by the government.

The number of fresh recoveries outpaced active cases in the same period as another 2,884 patients recovered from the illness through treatment at home and in hospital care, bringing the total to 426,729.

As many as 19,054 samples were tested at 140 authorised labs in the last 24 hours, yielding a positivity rate of 9.85 per cent.

The latest official figures put the recovery rate at 86.35 per cent while the mortality rate stands at 1.44 per cent.

Globally, over 72.87 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 1.62 million have died, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.

Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.