Coronavirus in Bangladesh: Daily death toll from Covid-19 drops to 26 on Eid day, lowest in 51 days
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Daily death toll from Covid-19 drops to 26 on Eid day, lowest in 51 days

Covid-19 in Bangladesh

TBS Report
14 May, 2021, 04:10 pm
Last modified: 14 May, 2021, 04:57 pm

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Daily death toll from Covid-19 drops to 26 on Eid day, lowest in 51 days

848 more people were infected with Covid-19 in the last 24 hours

TBS Report
14 May, 2021, 04:10 pm
Last modified: 14 May, 2021, 04:57 pm
Daily death toll from Covid-19 drops to 26 on Eid day, lowest in 51 days

The daily death toll from Covid-19 has dropped to 26 in the last 24 hours, which is the lowest in 51 days.

On 24 March, Bangladesh reported 25 new deaths from the viral disease and the toll continued to rise since then.

Meanwhile, 848 more people were infected with Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, which took the case count to 7,79,535.

Coronavirus in Bangladesh
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The fatality rate was recorded at 1.55% during the period and the positivity rate at 10.82 %, said a media statement issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Among the latest day's victims, 19 were men, and 7 were women. All the victims died in different hospitals across the country.

Moreover, nine of the deceased hailed from the Dhaka Division, 7 from Chattogram, three each from Rangpur and Khulna, and two each from Sylhet and Rajshahi.

Also, 852 patients were declared free of Covid-19 during the last 24 hours, with a 92.42% recovery rate.

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 Friday registered 343,144 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the country's total coronavirus infection tally past the 24-million mark. 4,000 new fatalities were recorded, taking the death toll to 262,317.

The country's total case count has now reached 24,046,809, according to the Union health ministry's dashboard.

India in the last 24 hours reported 4,120 deaths, taking the total toll to 2,58,317, while 3,62,727 fresh infections took the tally of active cases to 37,10525.

Covid-19 has claimed 3,360,338 lives worldwide and infected 161,889,014 so far, according to the data provided by Worldometer.

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