Over 2,000 new Covid cases for third day

The Report Desk

Published: June 29, 2022, 05:51 PM

Over 2,000 new Covid cases for third day

Bangladesh recorded another 2,241 Covid cases but zero deaths in the past 24 hours till Wednesday morning as infections rise alarmingly.

This is the third day in a row that the cases went past the grim 2,000 mark.

The fresh cases took the country's total caseload to 1,971,602 and the total body remained unchanged at 29,145, says the daily bulletin of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The daily-case positivity rate slightly dropped to 15.23 per cent from Tuesday’s 15.47 per cent as 14,912 samples were tested during the period, said the DGHS.

On Tuesday, the country recorded 2,087 cases with three deaths from Covid-19.

The mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.48 per cent. The recovery rate declined to 96.73 per cent from Tuesday’s 96.84 per cent as 152 patients recovered during this period.

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