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Bangladesh registers 22 new COVID cases, no deaths
The government has reported 22 coronavirus cases in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,953,563.
Published : 2 June 2022, 12:39 PM
Updated : 2 June 2022, 12:39 PM
No new fatalities were registered in the 24-hour count, keeping the death toll from the disease unchanged at 29,131, according to the latest data released on Thursday.
As many as 5,225 samples were tested across the country, for a positivity rate of 0.42 percent.
Among the eight divisions, Dhaka recorded the highest number of cases, with 13 infections.
Another 268 people recovered from the illness nationwide, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1,903,385.
The latest figures put the recovery rate at 97.43 percent and the mortality rate at 1.49 percent.
Globally, over 530.82 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and around 6.3 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.
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