Bangladesh registered no deaths in 24 hours from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8am Tuesday. The total number of deaths remained 29,112.
A total of 217 people were newly infected during the time and the total number of people infected rose to 1,949,942, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Tuesday.
The last time that the country registered no deaths in 24 hours was on December 9 last year.
Experts believe that the relentless vaccination campaigns conducted at regular intervals played a huge role in bringing down the impact of the deadly virus.
Dr Be-Nazir Ahmed, former director of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) told Bangladesh Post that the government’s persuasive approach and systematic mass vaccination campaigns had a significant impact in bringing the infection and death rates under control.
“Not so long ago it was seen that the spread of the virus reached at an alarming state. The Delta and Omicron variants were rampant in the country. However, we have recovered well from that situation,” he said.
Prof Dr Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam, Director General (Health) of DGHS told Bangladesh Post that many other countries could not deal with the virus as successfully as Bangladesh did.
“Health guidelines were prioritized and our Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was determined to ensure vaccines for all the people of the country from the very beginning which led to such improvement,” he said.
The current positivity dropped to 1.54 percent and the overall positivity rate stands at 14.27 percent.
Earlier on Sunday, one people died from the virus and 239 people contracted the virus.
In addition, the death rate now stands at 1.49 percent in the country, added the release.
A total of 14,049 samples were tested across the country till 8am Tuesday.
Some 1,600 Covid-19 patients have recovered during this period. A total of 1,864,408 people have recovered from the virus so far and the recovery rate stands at 95.61 percent.
As of Tuesday, 6,068,958 people died of Covid-19 across the world and 460,359,068 have been infected so far, according to Worldometer.
