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Bangladesh reports 132 more Covid-19 deaths in 24hrs


Bangladesh reports 132 more Covid-19 deaths in 24hrs

Bangladesh registered 132 coronavirus-related deaths in the past 24 hours, the second-highest single-day jump since the pandemic hit the country, taking the deaths toll to 14,778.

The tally of infections has surged to 930,042 as 8,483 new cases were confirmed in the last 24 hours, which is the highest daily cases, Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said on Friday (Jul 2) in its daily statement.

Among the dead in the last 24 hours, 81 were male and 51 were female.

In the past 24 hours, combined figure of coronavirus of Dhaka city and upazilas of Dhaka district is 2,708 while the tally of infections in the country has stood at 8,483 during the same period.

The DGHS said as of Jul 2, 5,25,419 out of 9,30,042 were detected alone in Dhaka district including the city.

DGHS said 28.27 percent of the 30,012 samples collected in 24 hours 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 8,25,422 after another 4,509 patients were discharged from the hospitals during the past one day.

The DGHS statistics showed of the people infected from the beginning, 88.75 percent recovered, while 1.59 percent died.

Bangladesh recorded the highest number of Covid-19 fatalities on Thursday (Jul 1) when the virus claimed the lives of 143 people and infects 8,301 others.

The government has imposed a seven-day lockdown that began from Thursday to contain transmission of the deadly virus.

As of Jul 2, 2021, 13.53 GMT, 3,973,721 people have died so far from the Covid-19 outbreak and there are currently 183,539,521 confirmed cases in 212 countries and territories, according to Worldometer, a reference website that provides counters and real-time statistics for diverse topics.

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