Global cases top 533m
No deaths, positivity rate declines to 0.42pc
Friday, 3 June 2022
The government has reported 22 coronavirus cases in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,953,563, report agencies.
No new fatalities were registered in the 24-hour count, keeping the death toll from the disease unchanged at 29,131, according to the latest data released on Thursday.
As many as 5,225 samples were tested across the country, for a positivity rate of 0.42 per cent.
Among the eight divisions, Dhaka recorded the highest number of cases, with 13 infections.
Another 268 people recovered from the illness nationwide, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1,903,385.
The latest figures put the recovery rate at 97.43 percent and the mortality rate at 1.49 percent.
Globally, the overall number of Covid cases has now crossed 533 million amid a rise in new infections in parts of the world.
According to the latest global data, the total case count mounted to 533,538,507 while the death toll from the virus reached 6,315,721 on Thursday morning.
The US has recorded 86,146,955 cases so far and 1,032,410 people have died from the virus in the country, the data shows.