Covid-19 death toll drops to 78 in a day
This is the lowest daily Covid-19 death toll in two weeks
Bangladesh reported 78 more deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours till 8 am Tuesday, taking the total death count in the country to 11,228.
This is the lowest daily Covid-19 death toll after 13 April when 69 deaths were reported.
The fatality rate now stands at 1.49% in Bangladesh, according to data released by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The country also saw a declining rate of infection with 3,031 new cases recorded in the last 24 hours pushing the country's total caseload to 7,51,659. Currently, the infection rate stands at12.51%.
Bangladesh tested 24,237 samples in 358 labs across the country in the last 24 hours.
Among the latest day's victims, 45 were men, and 33 were women. Of them, 76 died in different hospitals across the country while two died at home.
Also, 5,234 patients were declared free of Covid-19 during the last 24 hours, with an 88.73% recovery rate.
The Covid-19 victims' gender breakdown shows that among the total deceased across the country, 8,226 were men and 3,002 were women.
Moreover, 50 of the deceased hailed from the Dhaka Division, 10 from Chattogram, six each from Rajshahi and Khulna, three from Sylhet, two from Mymensingh, and one from Barishal Division.
The country's maiden cases were reported on 8 March last year and the first death caused by the virus was reported on 18 March.
India's Covid-19 crisis continued unabated as the country reported over 300,000 new infections of the disease for the sixth straight day on Tuesday.
With 323,144 new cases of the coronavirus disease and 2,771 fatalities, the country's cases tally reached 17,636,307 while the death toll climbed to 197,894.
As of Tuesday, 31,35,654 people died of Covid-19 worldwide and 148,539,211 have been infected so far, according to Worldometer.