DHAKA, July 9 (NNN-BSS) — The number of COVID-19 cases in Bangladesh hit a record daily high since the outbreak of the pandemic with 11,651 new infections being reported in a span of 24 hours, pushing the nationwide coronavirus tally to 989,219 so far.
“The death toll rose to 15,792 with 199 new fatalities, the second highest number of deaths in a single day,” Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said in its routine daily statement.
It said 31.62 percent of the 36,850 samples collected in 24 hours, the highest infection rate in a day, were tested positive while the infection rate was only 2.30 percent just on Feb 8 this year as during the late winter season, the rate started decreasing sharply.
The recovery count rose to 856,346 after another 5,844 patients were discharged from the hospitals during the past one day.
The DGHS statistics showed of the people infected from the beginning, 86.57 percent recovered, while 1.60 percent died.
In the past 24 hours, combined figure of coronavirus of Dhaka city and upazilas of Dhaka district is 3,285 while as of today, 5,44,867 out of 9,89,219 were detected alone in Dhaka district including the city.
The DGHS said among the total 15,792 fatalities, 7,936 deaths occurred in Dhaka division, 2,915 in Chattogram, 1,185 in Rajshahi, 1,658 in Khulna, 464 in Barishal, 563 in Sylhet, 707 in Rangpur and 364 in Mymensingh division.
The beginning of the current year witnessed a drastic fall of coronavirus cases in the country but the trend lasted for only two months – 21,629 cases were detected in January and 11,077 in February.
The country then witnessed sharp increase of infection as 65,079 cases were reported in March and 147,837 cases in April. The country again witnessed a fall in May as it recorded 41,408 cases. From the beginning of June the country recorded a sharp rise with 112,718 cases, the DGHS said.
Month-wise data of the current year, 568 coronavirus fatalities were recorded in January, 281 in February, 638 in March, 2,404 in April, 1,169 in May and 1,884 in June, the DGHS sources said.
As of July 8, 4,020,513 people globally have died so far from the COVID-19 outbreak and there are 185,998,325 confirmed cases in 212 countries and territories, according to Worldometer, a reference website that provides counters and real-time statistics for diverse topics.
China was the world’s first country which on January 11, 2020 reported the first death from the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, the capital of Central China’s Hubei province. — NNN-BSS
