Dhaka, April 18 – The Nine more people died of coronavirus disease in Bangladesh in 24 hours till Saturday, taking the total casualties in the country to 84.
Besides, Another 306 people tested positive for coronavirus during the period, raising the number of such cases in the country to 2,144. Confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide topped 2.1 million and deaths 140,773 on Thursday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.
IEDCR Director Prof Dr Meerjady Sabrina Flora came up with the disclosure joining the daily health bulletin.
In the last 24 hours, she said, 2,114 samples were tested across the country.
“Eight more patients have made recovery and total 64 people have made recovery so far from the disease,” Dr Flora added.
Prof Flora mentioned that 564 people are taking treatments in hospitals across the country. “Eleven of the patients are in ICUs,” she added.
Among the newly-infected patients, 27 percent are aged between 21 and 30 years, 22 percent between 31 and 40 years, 19 percent between 41 and 50,” Prof Flora said.
“Seventy percent of the 306 newly-infected patients are male while the rest are female,” she added.
Of the nine deceased, six are from Dhaka, two from Narayanganj and one was from Savar.
“Most of the infected people are in Dhaka, 32 percent of them got affected in the past 24 hours…Gazipur is seeing the higher number of infections followed by Narshingdi and Kishoreganj,” Prof Flora said. – UNB
Xinhua/UNB added: Confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide topped 2.1 million and deaths 140,773 on Thursday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.
The fresh figure reached 2,101,164 with 140,773 deaths as of 2:30 p.m. local time (1830 GMT), the CSSE said.
According to the running tally, the United States reported 641,166 cases, the most in the world, as well as the highest death toll of 31,590. Spain registered 182,816 cases and 19,130 deaths, while Italy reported 168,941 cases and 22,170 deaths. Other countries that reported over 100,000 cases included Germany, France and the United Kingdom.
