BD logs 28 more Covid cases amid zero death

Bangladesh registered 28 new Covid cases in the 24 hours till Saturday morning taking the country's total caseload to 1,953,407, health authorities said.
With no new Covid death reported during the period, the total fatalities from the pandemic remained unchanged at 29,130.
The daily test positivity rate slightly went up to 0.83 per cent from Friday's 0.53 per cent as 3,356 samples were tested, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
On Friday, the country saw 23 new cases with zero death.
The mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.49 per cent. The recovery rate rose to 97.38 per cent as 191 patients recovered during the 24-hour period.
In April, the country reported only five Covid-linked deaths and 1,142 new cases, while 14,291 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 jab.
The country reported its first zero Covid death in a single day on November 20 last
year, along with 178 cases, since the pandemic broke out here in March 2020.
On January 28, Bangladesh logged its previous highest positivity rate of 33.37 per cent.
The country registered its highest daily caseload of 16,230 on July 28 last year and daily fatalities of 264 on August 10 in the same year.
The overall number of Covid cases has now crossed 530 million amid a rise in new infections in parts of the world .
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