Staff Correspondent: Dhaka, Jul-29,
As the Delta variant of Covid-19 engulfed the country, Bangladesh recorded 239 more deaths caused by the virus in 24 hours till Thursday morning.
Besides, 15,271 new people came out Covid positive
during the period after the test of 52,282 samples, according to a handout
issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The fresh cases took the country’s Covid death tally
to 20,255 today while the caseload to 1,226,253.
The country has been seeing nearly 200 deaths a day
for the past two weeks, shattering the records of daily cases and deaths almost
every other day.
Meanwhile, the daily test-positivity rate declined
slightly to 29.21% from Wednesday's 30.12% while the World Health Organization
(WHO) recommends a 5% or below rate.
However, the case fatality rate remained unchanged
at 1.65 % during the period, said the DGHS.
The recovery rate too increased slightly to 85.64 %
from Tuesday’s 85.54 % with the recovery of more than 14,336 patients.
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