Staff Correspondent:
Dhaka, Sept-18,
Bangladesh today
reported 1,190 COVID-19 cases while the coronavirus claimed overnight 35 lives.
"The country
reported 6.05 percent COVID-19 positive cases as 19,668 samples were tested in
the past 24 hours, "Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said in
its routine daily statement.
In the past 24 hours,
combined figure of coronavirus of Dhaka city and upazilas of Dhaka district is
533 while 15 COVID-19 deaths were reported during the same period.
The official tally
showed the virus killed 27,182 people and infected 15,41,300 so far, it added.
The recovery count rose
to 14, 98,658 after another 1,645 patients were discharged from the hospitals
during the past one day.
The DGHS statistics
showed of the people infected from the beginning 97.23 percent recovered, while
1.76 percent died.
The DGHS said among the
total 27,182 fatalities, 11,832 deaths occurred in Dhaka division, 5,500 in
Chattogram, 2008 in Rajshahi, 3,527 in Khulna, 929 in Barishal, 1,228 in
Sylhet, 1,337 in Rangpur and 821 in Mymensingh division.
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