One more dies from Covid

One person died of Covid-19 and 445 others tested positive for the virus in the last 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, said a press release from the Directorate General of Health Services.

The positivity rate has decreased to 8.92 percent from the previous day's 9.57.

The new cases were lodged after 4,987 samples were tested across the country during this period.

With the new figure, the number of Covid deaths has reached 29,389.

Meanwhile, 686 people have recovered from the infection, with the recovery rate now at 97.09 percent.

The deceased was a female aged between 61 and 70.