7 more Covid deaths in last 24hrs

Bangladesh reported seven more deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours. 247 more people tested positive during the same period and the positivity rate stands at 1.32% with health officials having tested 18,690 people across the country. 

The death toll since the pandemic began, thus far has reached 27,887 and the case tally has climbed to 15,70,485 in the country. 

Dr M Mushtaq Hussain, adviser, Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research IEDCR, told TBS, "If there is no new variant of coronavirus in the country it seems infections will not increase for the time being. However, everyone has to follow hygiene rules and wear a mask, because infections can increase at any time. Last winter, infections increased a little for a few weeks, but then that was brought under control with effective measures. Once again, we have to be careful so that infections do not increase."

"Infections have decreased. Now adults need to be vaccinated faster on a priority basis, so that going forward, infections do not increase and the number of deaths goes down," he added.

Of the deaths reported, three were in Dhaka, two in Rangpur, and one each died in Khulna and Sylhet divisions. 

227 patients were also declared Covid-19 free in the last 24 hours, with a 97.70% recovery rate.