Bangladesh reports one more death from COVID-19

No new patients have been identified from 111 samples tested

Another person has died of COVID-19 in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, raising the yearly death tally to 31.

The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said the dead was a woman aged 61 to 70 years from the Dhaka Division.

She died while undergoing treatment at a government hospital.

The DGHS reported that no new COVID-19 cases were detected from 111 samples tested nationwide in the past 24 hours until Sunday morning. A total of 722 cases have been recorded so far this year.

Since the start of the pandemic in 2020, Bangladesh has conducted over 15.7 million tests, reporting more than 2.05 million cases and 29,523 deaths.

In 2020, the first year of the pandemic, 7,559 people died from COVID-19 in Bangladesh. The highest number of fatalities occurred in 2021, with 20,513 deaths. In 2022, there were 1,368 deaths, followed by 37 in 2023, and 22 in 2024.

The DGHS has issued fresh advisories following a rise in cases of a new sub-variant of the virus in India and other neighbouring countries.

The agency has urged people to avoid non-essential travel to affected countries and instructed all land and airports to step up health screening and surveillance measures.