Dhaka, April 24: Bangladesh recorded 83 more Covid-19 deaths in 24 hours until Saturday morning pushing up the total fatalities to 10,952. Bangladesh’s coronavirus fatalities crossed 10,000 on April 15.
With the latest figure, the mortality rate rose to 1.48 percent from Friday’s 1.47 percent, the Directorate General of Health Services said in a handout.
Besides, 2,697 new cases were detected during the period after examining 20,571 samples.
The daily infection rate fell to 13.11 percent from Friday’s 14 percent.
Bangladesh reported its first coronavirus cases on March 8 last year and the first death on the 18th of that month.
With the news cases the total caseload reached 742,400 while the total number of recoveries is 653,151, including 5477 in the last 24 hours.
A rise in infection prompted the government to go for a lockdown from early April but it turned out to be lax. From April 11, the government imposed a ‘strict lockdown’ and later extended it to April 28.
On Friday, the government allowed shopping malls to open from April 25, reports UNB.
