COVID-19 claims 19 more, infects 1,733 in Bangladesh

COVID-19 claims 19 more, infects 1,733 in Bangladesh

Bangladesh logged an additional 19 deaths and 1,733 infections from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours on Wednesday, counting the death toll to 6,127 and infections to 425,353.

Among the deceased, 16 were male and 3 female patients.

A Directorate General of Health Services release came up with the latest COVID-19 data.

Some 14,524 specimens were tested in the timeline at 115 labs across the country.

Bangladesh had tested a total of 24,84,688 specimens as of November 11.

A total of 1,715 patients were declared free from novel coronavirus infection in the past 24 hours totalling the recovery to 3,43,131.

Bangladesh on March 8 reported the first COVID-19 positive cases while the first death was logged ten days later on March 18.

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