Kushtia Correspondent: Dhaka, Aug-21,
Eight more people have died of Covid-19 in the past
24 hours at Kushtia General Hospital, health officials said on Saturday
morning.
All the eight deceased were confirmed Covid patients
and had been admitted to the hospital’s Covid unit.
Kushtia General Hospital official Md Mejbaul Alam
said that the number of Covid deaths increased on Saturday as compared to that
of Friday but the number of Covid-infected patients have decreased.
As of Saturday morning, the infection rate in
Kushtia was 19.08 percent.
So far, 17,165 Covid-19 infected people have been
identified in the district, of which 14,478 people have recovered and 693 died.
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