News Desk
Bangladesh registered 95 more Covid-related deaths in 24 hours until Saturday that pushed up the total number of fatalities to 10,683.Besides, 4280 people were found infected during the period after testing 28,408 samples, the Directorate General of Health Services said in a handout.
With the latest figure, the mortality rate rose to 1.46 percent while the infection rate declined to 15.07 percent from Tuesday’s 16.85 percent.
On Monday, the country had broken all the previous records of Covid-19 deaths registering 112 fatalities.
Bangladesh reported its first coronavirus cases on March 8 last year and the first death on the 18th of that month.
Health authorities have so far confirmed 732,060 cases. Among them, 635,183 people – 86.77 percent of all patients – have recovered.
April has been the deadliest month since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in the country as the highest 1637 deaths and 117,292 new cases were recorded in 21 days of the month.
The virus claimed 568 lives in January this year, 281 in February and 638 in March.
Dhaka division remains the worst-hit region of the country.
Sixty of the 58 deaths reported today are from Dhaka division while 17 from Chatogram and eight in Rajshahi, three each in Rajshahi, Sylhet, Rangpur, two in Barishal and one in Mymensign divisions.
Among the total deceased, 6237 died in Dhaka division, which is 58.38 percent of the total fatalities.
