Bangladesh on Thursday recorded a whopping 2,187 new COVID-19, notching the highest number of daily cases in past 101 days.
The test positivity rate also rose further, hitting 10.45 per cent in the past 24 hours ending at 8:00am Thursday, also highest in the past 94 days, according to the Directorate General of Health Services.
Some 20,925 specimens were tested at 219 labs in the 24 hours across the country.
The coronavirus situation worsened since the beginning of March, prompting the experts to call it as the second wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in the country.
In the previous two months before the beginning of March, the country’s COVID-19 situation was relatively better – with the daily test positivity rate dropping to roughly 2.50 per cent.
Noted medicine expert MA Jalil Chowdhury told New Age that the COVID-19 situation was deteriorating fast in the country.
He urged people to use masks and wash hands and avoid unnecessary outdoor activities.
‘We do not know the reasons behind the sudden surge in COVID-19 cases. We do not have any choice now but following health guidelines,’ said Jalil, a member of the Committee on National Guidelines on Clinical Management of COVID-19.
DGHS said in the daily update that 16 more people died of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 8,624.
The country so far tallied 5, 64,939 cases since the first three cases were detected on march 8 last year.
A total of 1,534 patients were declared free from novel coronavirus infection in the past 24 hours totalling the recovery to 5, 17,523.
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