COVID-19: 6 die, 351 new cases

Six people died of Covid in the 24 hours preceding 8:00am yesterday, a sharp rise in the number of fatalities reported in recent weeks.

The health directorate also reported 351 new cases of coronavirus after testing 5,988 individuals.

The last time officials recorded six deaths in a day was on September 26.

Of those reported dead yesterday, the youngest was aged between 41 and 50 years. Three of them were men and the other were women; four died in Dhaka division and one each in Chattogram and Sylhet divisions.

This took the total number of deaths to 29,401 and confirmed cases to 20,32,443.