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Bangladesh’s daily count of COVID-19 cases tops 4,000 for first time; another 43 die
Bangladesh has registered 4,008 new cases of the novel coronavirus, the most in a daily count, bringing the tally to 98,489.
Published : 17 June 2020, 08:55 AM
Updated : 17 June 2020, 10:39 AM
The tally of deaths surged to 1,305 with 43 people dead in the 24 hours to 8 am Wednesday, according to the health directorate.
Another 1,925 COVID-19 patients recovered in the same period, raising the total to 38,189, DGHS Additional Director General Nasima Sultana said in a media briefing on Wednesday.
A total of 17,527 samples were tested at 59 authorised labs in the country in the same period, 22.87 percent of which returned positive results, she added.
The rate of recovery from COVID-19 in Bangladesh currently stands at 38.77 percent while the mortality rate is 1.33 percent.
The latest fatalities include 28 men and 15 women, among whom, 27 people passed away in hospital care, 15 at home while another person died on the way to the hospital.
Globally, over 8.17 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 443,764 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.
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