Staff Correspondent: Dhaka, Aug-18,
Bangladesh reported 172 more coronavirus-related deaths and 7,248 fresh infections in 24 hours till Wednesday morning as concern remains over the virulent Delta Variant of the virus.
The country has been
seeing fatalities below 200 for the last six days, a slight improvement from
the July 25- August 13 period when daily deaths were recorded over 200.
The fresh numbers took
the country’s total fatalities to 24,719 while the cases to 1,440,644,
according to a handout issued by the Directorate General of Health Services
(DGHS)
The new cases were
detected after testing 41,014 samples which lowered the case positivity
rate to 17.67 % from Tuesday’s 19.18 %,
still much higher that the WHO recommendation of bringing it below 5%.
Meanwhile, the case
fatality rate increased to 1.72 % after staying unchanged at 1.71% for some
days.
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