Bangladesh logged the highest Covid deaths in 53 days on Sunday.
The viral disease killed an additional 82 people and infected 3,641 more in the past 24 hours until 8:00am Sunday.
With the latest tally, the death toll from Covid hits 13,848 and infections 851,668.
The daily Covid situation update by the Directorate General of Health Services came up with the statistics.
The country logged 88 deaths in 24hours ending 8:00am on April 29 and 57 on April 30.
Among the deceased, 55 are male and 27 female patients.
Seventy one of them died at public hospitals, eight at private ones and three died at their homes, according to the government statistics.
A total of 22,231 samples have been tested in the timeline. Bangladesh had tested 63,27,734 samples as of June 14.
A total of 2,509 people recovered from the viral disease totalling the number to 782,655.
The daily update shows that 38 of the deceased were aged above 60 years, 21 aged between 51 and 60 years, 11 between 41 and 50 years, nine between 31 and 40 years, two between the age range of 21 to 30 and one 11 to 20 years.
A total of nine patients who had symptoms of Covid infection died at the Covid units of Rajshshi Medical College Hospital in the past 24 hours ending Sunday morning.
RMCH deputy director Saiful Ferdous said that a total of 10 patients — one Covid positive patient and rest nine patients having Covid symptoms — died at Covid units of his hospital during the time.
Three hospitals in the capital city of Bangladesh, Dhaka, are going to administer Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine from Monday.
The Directorate General of health Services announced this at an online press conference on Sunday afternoon.
Bangladesh received a total of 100,620 doses of the vaccine on May 31 as a donation from the Gavi-coordinated Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access, generally known as COVAX.
Over 178 million people have been found infected with Covid-19 as many countries are still grappling with a spike in cases and deaths across the world.
The total caseload and deaths from the virus stand at 178, 123, 144 and 3,857,806, respectively as of Sunday morning, as per the latest data released by Johns Hopkins University.
