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Covid-19 in Bangladesh

Lowest death in a month


Published : 04 Jul 2020 09:48 PM | Updated : 06 Sep 2020 02:08 AM

Bangladesh on Saturday recorded 29 more deaths from the Covid19 which was the lowest in a month.

The lowest earlier in the last one month was on June 5 when 30 patients died of Covid19.

Additional director general for health Prof Nasima Sultana at the daily briefing said 3288 new cases were also identified testing 14,727 samples in the last 24 hours till 8am.

With this, the death toll from the pandemic virus rose to 1,997 and the number of total infections was 159,679.

Besides, 2,673 patients have recovered during the time, increasing the tally to 70,721.

So far, 44.29 percent of patients have recovered in Bangladesh. The death rate is 1.25 percent.

The Saturday’s infection rate was 22.33 percent of the total tests, though the overall rate in the country till date was 19.19 percent.

Currently, 64,150 people are quarantined across Bangladesh – including 2,242 newly-quarantined individuals. A total of 309,995 people have completed their quarantine course.

The authorities placed 744 new individuals suspected of having Covid-19 into isolation, bringing the total to 16,449 after 13,674 left.

Among the latest dead patients, 21 were men and eight were women – 25 died in different hospitals, one at his respective home and three were diagnosed with the infection after death.

Of them, nine from Dhaka, seven from Rajshahi, four from Chattogram, three each from Khulna and Sylhet, two from Barishal, and one from Mymensingh division.

According to the analysis of Covid-19 victims' age groups as of Saturday, the highest number of patients - 43.52 percent - died till date were aged 60 and above.

The age groups of 51-60 and 41-50 come next with respectively 29.04 percent and 14.72 percent.

Rest of the age groups stand under eight percent, such as- 31-40 with 7.41 percent, 21-30 with 3.51 percent, 11-20 with 1.20 percent and under ten with 0.60 percent.

The gender-wise analysis of the victims stated that some 1,587 people who have died from Covid-19 are male and 410 are female, which are 89.47 percent and 20.53 percent respectively.  

District-wise, out of 1,997 fatalities till date, 1,041 are from Dhaka division, 521 from Chattogram, 101 from Rajshahi, 84 from Sylhet, 82 from Khulna, 67 from Barishal, 53 from Rangpur and 48 from Mymensingh division.

Bangladesh confirmed the first coronavirus death on March 18, ten days after the detection of the first COVID-19 cases. So far 832,074 samples have been tested for coronavirus in Bangladesh.

Prof Nasima said there are 6075 beds and 149 ICUs in 16 COVID-19 dedicated hospitals in Dhaka city.

The total number of beds and ICUs for the COVID-19 patients in the country are 14,775 beds and 401 respectively, she said, adding now 4708 patients are undergoing treatment at these hospitals and 209 were admitted to the ICUs.

“So, there is no scarcity of ICUs and beds in the hospital for COVID-19 patients”.

She urged all to abide by health rules to protect themselves from the infection. Those include wearing masks, maintaining physical distancing and washing hands with soap.

As most of the patients are staying at home, they have been urged to contact hotline and mobile numbers - 16263; 333; 10655 and 01944333222 - to receive information and treatment facilities on COVID-19.

As many as 14,586,688 hotline health services were given by 16,414 trained and 4,217 volunteer doctors via those numbers, including 159,431 in the last 24-hour till 8am on Saturday.

The WHO declared the virus pandemic on March 11.