Bangladesh today reported 1,975 fresh cases from the novel coronavirus (Covid-19), the highest in a daily count, taking the caseload to 35,585. The fatalities from the pandemic have also surged to 501 as 21 more patients died in the last 24 hours. The recovery count rose to 7,334 after 433 patients were discharged from hospitals during the period.
Additional Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Prof Dr Nasima Sultana came up with the disclosure at the daily online bulletin.
Among the deceased, 16 were male and five were female. 11 were from Dhaka division, nine from Chattogram and one was from Rangpur division, she said.
Nine of the deceased were around 51-60 years old, four between 61-70, three between 41-50, two between 71-80, two between 81-90, and one 11-20 years old, Dr Nasima said.
The recovery rate from the disease in Bangladesh currently stands at 20.61 percent, while the mortality rate is 1.41 percent, the DGHS official added.
She informed that a total of 9,451 samples were tested at 48 authorised laboratories across the country at the same time. A total of 2,53,034 samples have so far been tested since the detection of the first Covid-19 cases in the country.
According to the DGHS, a total of 2,65,863 people were kept at both home and institutional quarantine and 2,10,458 people were released from quarantine, while the number of people who are now in quarantine is 55,405.
It said a total of 626 institutions have been prepared across the country for keeping over 31,840 people in quarantine, adding 4,653 people have now been kept in isolation.
The government has collected 2,454,737 PPE so far, of which over 20,66,334 were distributed and 3,88,403 are in stock.
The DGHS sources said till today, nearly 76,61,361 people received healthcare services from hotline mobile numbers and health web portals as the government formed a group of medical professionals to provide emergency health services.
To receive information and treatment facilities on Covid-19, the contact hotline and mobile numbers are 16263; 333; 10655 and 01944333222.
Bangladesh confirmed the first coronavirus death on Mar 18, ten days after the detection of the first Covid-19 cases.
As of May 25, 09:34 GMT, 346,949 people have died so far from the Covid-19 outbreak and there are 5,517,034 currently confirmed cases in 212 countries and territories, according to Worldometer, a reference website that provides counters and real-time statistics for diverse topics.
China was the world’s first country which on Jan 11 reported the first death from the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, the capital of Central China’s Hubei province.
