Four more Covid deaths as daily caseload declines

Fatalities from Covid-19 in the country doubled to four in the last 24 hours until Saturday morning from the figure in the previous period.

However, the number of positive cases in the latest reporting period declined to 446 on Saturday from 620 on the previous day.

With the latest counts, total fatalities and positive cases from the viral disease jumped to 29,262 and 20,01,345 respectively, the official data revealed.

According to the regular bulletin issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), three of the deceased were male and one female.

The deceased were aged between 51 and 60 years, 31 and 40 years, 21 and 30 years, and the remaining one was a minor aged below 10 years.

The DGHS reported two deaths in Dhaka division, one in Khulna and the remaining one in Sylhet division.

It recorded the death rate at 1.46 per cent for the entire period starting from March 2020.

The positivity rate on Saturday was reported at 10.10 per cent against 8.36 on

the previous day. Some 4,415 samples were tested in the latest reporting period.

The DGHS logged the recovery rate at 96.67 per cent for the entire pandemic period with 1,434 patients recovering in the 24 hours taking the total to 19,34,693.

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