Steady rise in Covid infections

Bangladesh reported two more Covid-linked deaths with 1,680 new infections in 24 hours till Sunday morning, reports UNB.
The new figures took the country's total death toll to 29,140 while caseload to 19,65,173, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The daily-case positivity rate jumped to 15.66 per cent from Saturday's 15.07 per cent as 10,778 samples were tested during the period, said the DGHS.
The deceased included a woman and a man, both from Dhaka division.
On Saturday, the country recorded 1,280 cases with three deaths from Covid-19.
The mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.48 per cent. The recovery rate declined to 97.02 per cent from Saturday's 97.10 per cent as 169 patients recovered during this period.
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.
Globally the overall number of Covid cases is now near 549 million amid a rise in new infections in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
According to the latest global data, the total case count mounted to 548,692,849 while the death toll from the virus reached 6,350,314, on Sunday morning.
The US has recorded 88,777,558 cases so far and 1,040,792 people have died from the virus in the country, the data shows.