Bangladesh reports 88 Covid deaths, infection rate drops to 9.39%

Bangladesh reported 88 more deaths from Covid-19 and 2,341 new cases in the last 24 hours ending at 8am Thursday.

With these new case figures, the country's total caseload reached 7,56,955. 

Meanwhile, the infection rate further dropped today to 9.39% which is the lowest since 20 March. 

The daily death toll increased in the last 24 hours as the country reported 77 single-day deaths on Wednesday. The total death count now stands at 11,393 in the country with a fatality rate of 1.51%.

April has been marked as the deadliest month in the country with an average daily death of 81 people since the pandemic hit the country in March last year. It also saw the country's highest-ever single day deaths as 112 people died of Covid-19 on 19 April. 

In the meantime, 24,928 samples were tested in 358 labs across the country.

Among the latest day's victims, 52 were men, and 36 were women. Of them, 85 died in different hospitals across the country while three died on the way to hospital. 

Moreover, 48 of the deceased hailed from the Dhaka Division, 22 from Chattogram, five from Sylhet, four each from Rajshahi and Barishal, two each from Rangpur and Mymensingh and one from Khulna division.

Also, 4,782 patients were declared free of Covid-19 during the last 24 hours, with an 89.45% recovery rate.

The Covid-19 victims' gender breakdown shows that 8,321 of the total deceased across the country were men and 3,072 were women.

The country's maiden cases were reported on 8 March last year and the first death from the virus was reported on 18 March.

India on Thursday saw a record single-day rise of 379,257 coronavirus cases, which pushed the total tally to 1,8,376,524, while the death count crossed two lakh following 3,645 fresh fatalities, according to Union health ministry data.

As of Thursday, 3,165,968 people have died of Covid-19 globally with 150,295,114 cases of infection have been recorded so far.