​​​​​​​Bangladesh loses 26 more lives to Covid

News Desk

Bangladesh lost 26 more lives in the second wave of Covid in 24 hours till Friday morning, taking the country’s fatalities to 12,310.The daily infection rate rose to 8.22% from Thursday’s 7.50%, said the Directorate General of Health Services.
Meanwhile, 1,504 people came out positive in 18,294 tests carried out over the same period, pushing the country’s caseload to 786,698.
“The fatality number, recorded so far, is lower compared to the number of positive cases. This warrants conduction of genomic sequencing to see if any new but less virulent variant is in the offing,” Dr AM Zakir Hussain, former director of the Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research, told UNB.
Meanwhile, the fatality rate remained unchanged at 1.56% and the recovery rate stood at 92.67%
So far, the country has carried out 5,793,177 sample tests since reporting its first cases on March 8 last year and the first death on the 18th of that month.