Covid-19 claimed the lives of 20 more patients and infected 5,023 others across Bangladesh in 24 hours ending Saturday morning.
With the latest statistics, the total death toll hits 28,791 and infections to 19,04,826 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 16.50 per cent.
Of the deceased, 12 are male patients and the remaining eight are female patients.
The Directorate General of Health Services came up with the latest statistics on its daily Covid press release.
A total of 30,448 samples have been tested during the reporting period across the country while Bangladesh had tested 1,29,62,524 samples as of February 12.
During the reporting period, a total of 8,821 patients were recovered from the infection. With this, a total of 16,64,802 people recovered from the viral disease.
Of the deceased, 13 died in Dhaka division, two each in Khulna and Rajshahi and one each died in Barishal, Sylhet and Rangpur division.
The release said that a total of 12 patients died in government hospitals and eight others died in non-government hospitals during the reporting period.
