Bangladesh has been witnessing an increase in daily new cases and infection rate for the last few days as the health authorities prepares to tackle the new Covid-19 variant, Omicron.
In the 24 hours to Thursday morning, the country recorded 382 new cases, a rise from Wednesday’s count.
The test positivity rate climbed to 1.95% from the 19,624 samples tested across the country.
The health authorities also registered two new deaths from Covid-19 in the 24-hour period.
The latest additions took the country’s death toll to 28,054, the total caseload to 1,582,368 and the total number of recoveries to 1,546,664.
According to the data, the country’s overall Covid-19 mortality rate until Thursday morning stood at 1.77%, overall recovery rate at 97.74%, and the overall positivity lowered to 13.94%.
The seven-day moving average of single-day deaths in Bangladesh was 1.85 on Thursday.
In terms of deaths per division, Chittagong and Khulna logged one fatality each.
Of the new patients, Dhaka logged 335 cases, the highest among the divisions. No new cases were reported in 32 districts of the country.
Bangladesh reported its first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a strain of coronavirus later named Sars-CoV-2, on March 8, 2020. The first death was reported 10 days later.
The country, however, has been witnessing infection rates below or around 2% for the past few weeks. The country last recorded an infection rate of over 3% on October 4 when the figure stood at 3.19%.
