Staff Correspondent: Dhaka, Aug-08,
Covid-19 in Bangladesh continued its relentless havoc as the country saw 241 more deaths in the past 24 hours till Monday morning while 10,299 new people contracted the virus.
The fresh numbers took the country’s total fatality to 22,652 while the number of total cases stood at 1,353,695, according to a handout issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The new cases were detected after testing 42,003 samples which lowered the country’s case positivity rate to 24.52% from Saturday’s 25.65%.
However, the case fatality rate remained unchanged at 1.67% during the period, said the DGHS
Besides, the recovery rate rose to 89.05% from 88.89 % with 16,627 new patients recovering from Covid-19 during this time.
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