Bangladesh’s Covid-19 cases cross 28,500
Record 22 deaths, 1,773 cases reported in 24 hours
On the 75th day of detection, the number of confirmed Covid-19 patients surpassed 28,500 in the country.
The number of infected patient and death is breaking its previous record every day.
Bangladesh confirmed – the highest single-day – 22 deaths and 1,773 new cases of infection from the novel coronavirus.
The result came as 47 coronavirus testing laboratories across the country tested 10,262 samples from Wednesday 8am to Thursday 8am.
With this figure, the country's Covid-19 death toll rose to 408 and total infections to 28,511.
"Among the deceased, 19 are males and three females. Ten of them are from Dhaka division, eight from Chattogram, two from Sylhet and one from Mymensingh," Additional Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services said yesterday in a daily online bulletin on the Covid-19 situation.
"Sixteen of them died at different hospitals, five at home and one was diagnosed with the infection after death."
"Some 395 patients recovered from the virus during this time, taking the number of recoveries to 5,602."
"The authorities put 154 new Covid-19 suspects into isolation, bringing the total to 3,897."
Meanwhile, Health Minister Zahid Maleque, in a programme yesterday, said: "No vaccine could be developed for Covid-19 patients so far and there is no specific medicine for it either."
"Wearing masks, maintaining social distancing, getting tested and staying in isolation are the biggest prevention measures now.
"We don't want people to die from Covid-19. There have been many deaths so far. And we are moving towards the peak of Covid-19 cases.
"The government is trying hard. The ferries have been stopped. But people are going to different districts, riding a motorbike or rickshaw. I also noticed mothers taking their children to markets, increasing the risk of both getting infected."