Bangladesh sees 239 more deaths from Covid-19
Published:
2021-07-30 06:18:38 BdST
Update:
2024-04-27 10:36:56 BdST
Live Correspondent: Bangladesh on Thursday reported 15,271 COVID-19 cases while the virus claimed overnight 239 lives. The official tally showed the virus killed 20,255 people and infected 12,26,253, Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said in its routine daily statement.
The country has been seeing nearly 200 deaths a day for the past two weeks, shattering the records of daily cases and deaths almost every other day.
Meanwhile, the daily test-positivity rate declined slightly to 29.21% from Wednesday's 30.12% while the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends a 5% or below rate.
However, the case fatality rate remained unchanged at 1.65 % during the period, said the DGHS.
The recovery count rose to 10,50,220 after another 14,336 patients were discharged from the hospitals during the past day.
The DGHS statistics showed that of the people infected from the beginning 85.64 percent recovered, while 1.65 percent died.
Dhaka, 28 July (campuslive24.com)//BSC
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