COVID-19 claims six, dengue five lives in 24 hours

Bangladesh logged six COVID-19 deaths while dengue fever claimed lives of five others in the last 24 hours. 

COVID-19

The country has recorded 351 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,032,443.

The death toll from the disease rose by six to 29,401 over the 24-hour period, according to the latest government data released on Sunday. 

As many as 5,988 samples were tested across the country, for a positivity rate of 5.86 per cent. Dhaka logged the highest number of cases among the eight divisions, with 264 infections.

Another 620 people recovered from the illness nationwide, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1,974,208.The latest figures put the recovery rate at 97.13 per cent and the mortality rate at 1.45 per cent.

Globally, over 624.50 million people have been infected by the coronavirus and 6.56 million have died, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.

Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.

Dengue

Five more dengue patients died in 24 hours till Sunday morning, raising this year’s death toll from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 94.

During this period, 855 more patients were hospitalised with viral fever as cases keep rising, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Out of the latest deaths, two were reported from the Dhaka division and one each from Mymensingh, Khulna and Chattogram divisions.

The dengue death toll in the Dhaka division stands at 53, in the Chattogram division at 34 while it remained static in the Barishal division at five.

Among the new patients, 523 were admitted to different hospitals in Dhaka and 322 outside it.

A total of 2,847 dengue patients, including 1,957 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.

The Directorate has recorded 25, 181 dengue cases and 22, 240 recoveries so far this year.