Country’s daily infection rate falls slightly

Bangladesh's daily Covid-19 infection rate fell slightly to 9.39 percent yesterday compared with 10.04 percent the previous day.

In 24 hours till yesterday morning, the health authorities registered 26 more coronavirus-related deaths and 1,868 new cases.

The latest figures have pushed the Covid-19 fatalities to 8,668 and the total infections to 568,706, according to a handout published by the Directorate General of Health Services.

Meanwhile, the mortality rate stood at 1.52 percent for the second day after remaining static at 1.53 percent for the past week.

Covid-19 infection rate had come down to below 5 percent on January 19. It even fell below 3 percent, but started soaring again on February 9.

So far, 520,718 patients (91.56 percent) have recovered, including 1,577 in the same 24-hour period, according to DGHS.

Bangladesh reported its first novel coronavirus cases on March 8 last year and the first death on March 18.

Authorities have so far tested 4,388,011 samples, including 19,900 in the 24-hour period.