Covid-19 claimed the lives of 29 more patients and infected 8,345 others across Bangladesh in 24 hours ending Sunday morning.
With the latest statistics, the total death toll hits 28,589 and infections to 18,61,532 since the country had recorded the first Covid infection on March 8, 2020, and death from the viral disease on March 18, 2020.
The day’s test positivity rate is 21.50 per cent.
Of the deceased, 15 are male patients and the remaining 14 are female patients.
The Directorate General of Health Services came up with the latest statistics on its daily Covid press release.
A total of 38,821 samples have been tested during the reporting period across the country while Bangladesh had tested 1,27,26,409 samples as of February 6.
During the reporting period, a total of 8,159 patients were recovered from the infection. With this, a total of 16,02,550 people recovered from the viral disease.
Of the deceased, 14 died in Dhaka division, four each in Khulna and Chattogram, three in Rangpur, two in Mymensingh and one each died in Rajshahi and Sylhet divisions.
The release said that a total of 22 patients died in government hospitals and seven died in non-government hospitals during the reporting period.
