Bangladesh on Tuesday saw the daily percentage of people testing positive for Covid-19 go up over 5% after a month of a downtrend.
The country registered 912 new cases in the last 24 hours till Tuesday morning -- the highest daily count in nearly two months.
In the same period, 13 more deaths were recorded around the country, taking the total death toll to 8,489.
On the other hand, the total number of cases stood at 552,087, according to a daily press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
It was on January 10, when DGHS recorded a higher single-day caseload of 1,071.
Since then, the number of daily cases remained below the 900 mark until Tuesday.
With the number of people testing positive going up, the daily test positivity rate has also risen to 5.13%.
The last time it was over 5% was on January 18. After that, following a downward trend, it had even dropped to below 3%.
However, the month of March is seeing an upward trend of rising cases day by day. On March 1, 585 new Covid-19 cases were recorded, after almost a month of a lower rate of infections, and on Monday, 845 cases were detected.
The number of tests also increased in the last 24 hours till Tuesday morning – 17,775. On Monday, 16,958 tests were conducted.
To date, from March last year, 4,180,938 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall test positivity rate of 13.20%.
Meanwhile, 1,229 Covid-19 patients recovered in the last 24 hours, bringing the total recovery count to 505,349 -- 91.53% of total cases.
So far, 6,420 male Covid-19 patients (75.63% of the total) and 2,069 female patients (24.37%) have died in Bangladesh.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases currently stands at 1.54%.
Of the 13 new deceased, all men, 10 were from the Dhaka division, and one each from Barisal, Rangpur, and Chittagong divisions.
All of them died while undergoing treatment at different hospitals.
