Staff Correspondent: Dhaka, Aug-14,

With Covid-19 vaccine jabs still remaining off the peak in Bangladesh, the country reported 178 more coronavirus-related deaths and 6,885 fresh infections in 24 hours till Saturday Morning.

The fresh numbers took the country’s death tally to 23,988 while the total cases mounted to 1,412,218, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The new infections were detected after testing 33,330 samples, bringing down the case positivity rate slightly to 20.66% from Friday’s 20.88%.

Meanwhile, the case fatality rate increased to 1.70% from yesterday’s 1.68% during the period.

Besides, the recovery rate rose to 90.62%, with 7,805 new patients recovered from the infection

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