34 new cases, no death
S Arabia suspends travel to 16 nations, Taiwan reports 80,000 cases a day
Wednesday, 25 May 2022
Bangladesh registered 34 new Covid cases in 24 hours till Tuesday morning taking the country's total caseload to 1,953,298, health authorities said, report agencies.
With no new Covid death reported during the period, the total fatalities from the pandemic so far remained unchanged at 29,130.
On Monday, the country saw two deaths from Covid-19 with 31 new cases.
The daily test positivity rate slightly increased to 0.79 per cent from Monday's 0.67 per cent as 4,333 samples were tested, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.49 per cent. The recovery rate rose to 97.34 per cent as 228 patients recovered during this period.
In April, the country reported only five Covid-linked deaths and 1,114 new cases, while 14,100 patients recovered from the disease, according to the DGHS.
Among the five deaths during the period, two were unvaccinated patients while three were vaccinated with two doses of the Covid vaccine.
Another report adds: Saudi Arabia has banned its citizens from travelling to sixteen countries, including India, following the re-outbreak of COVID-19 and a rapid surge in daily infections over the past few weeks.
A report from Taipei adds: Billed a COVID-19 success story as its economy boomed through the pandemic, Taiwan is now battling a record wave of infections as it eases restrictions that had kept outbreaks at bay to start life with the virus.
For the whole of 2021, Taiwan reported less than 15,000 locally transmitted cases. Now, it's registering around 80,000 cases a day - a startling reversal after the effectiveness of its long-standing zero-COVID policy won it international praise.
"We could no longer achieve the goal of zero COVID because it was too contagious," former vice president Chen Chien-jen, an epidemiologist, said in a video released by the ruling Democratic Progressive Party on Sunday. Most cases in Taiwan are of the less severe Omicron variant, with more than 99.7% of cases exhibiting mild or no symptoms, he said.