32 more Covid-19 deaths, 1,436 cases

Highlights:

• Total infected: 3, 63, 347
• Total death: 5,251
• Total recovery: 275,487
• Total sample test: 1,947,655

Bangladesh has reported 32 more deaths from the novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours till early Wednesday.

Fatalities from the virus stood at 5,251 and the death rate at 1.44%, read a press release of the Directorate General of Health Services.

In the past 24 hours, 1,436 people have tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 363,479.

A total 13,404 samples were tested in 108 labs over the same period. Overall, 1,947,655 samples have been tested in the country since the virus broke out.

The latest daily infection rate was 10.71%, while the overall rate stood at 18.66%.

Meanwhile, the number of recovered patients reached 275,487, including 1,789 new ones in the last 24 hours, and the recovery rate rose to 75.79%. 

Of the deceased, 24 were men and eight women. Twenty-four of them were from Dhaka division, two from Chattogram, four from Rajshahi, with one each from Sylhet and Mymensingh.

So far, 4,063 men and 1,188 women have died from the virus in the country.

Geographically: 2,631 of them were from Dhaka division, 1,075 from Chattogram, 435 from Khulna, 345 from Rajshahi, 237 from Rangpur, 231 from Sylhet, 187 from Barishal, and 110 from Mymensingh.

The country first detected Covid-19 cases on March 8 this year and reported the first death from the virus on March 18.