One more died of coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said today. The death toll now stands at 21, the health minister said during a briefing this afternoon. 112 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours. With this, the total number of infected has reached 330.
Bangladesh saw a big jump in the coronavirus cases by 112 people in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of infected people to 330.
Another person died from coronavirus in the country in the last 24 hours, raising the death toll to 21, according to Health minister Zahid Maleque.
"In the last 24 hours, we’ve identified an additional of 112 people with coronavirus infection and one person died during the period," he said on Thursday.
Joining a regular briefing of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), the minister said as the number has spiked, the range of testing has also increased.
The minister noted that a number of buildings are being set up as isolation units.
A building owned by Bashundhara Group is being prepared as a 2000-bed isolation unit, a market in DNCC area will be prepared as another 1400-bed isolation unit, he said.
