Patients recovering from the Covid-19 are rising in Bangladesh contrary to the common perception.
According to the health department, 34,027 patients made full recoveries as of Monday since the outbreak of the coronavirus in Bangladesh on March 8. The rate is 37.55 percent of the total infections.
Additional Director General for Health Prof Nasima Sultana made the disclosure on Monday at the daily virtual briefing.
She said in the last 24 hours till 8am, 38 more patients died and 3,099 new cases were found, taking the number of death toll from the pandemic to 1209 and cases to 90,619.
So far, 1.33 percent patients of the detected cases died, she said.
She urged people to follow the health instructions such as avoid gatherings, maintain physical distancing and washing hands with soap. People have also been asked to wear masks in public places.
The government tested 15,038 samples in 58 authorised labs in the last 24 hours. The infection rate was 20.61 percent.
Analysing the deaths, Prof Nasima said 32 were men and 6 were women. Of them, 18 were from Dhaka division, 12 from Chattogram, six from Khulna and one each from Rangpur and Barishal.
Twenty-five patients died at different hospitals, eleven at their respective homes and two were diagnosed with the infection after death.
The number of people being quarantined also rose to 61,669 with additional 2,922 newly-quarantined individuals.
A total of 261,689 people have completed their quarantine course so far.
The authorities also placed 536 new individuals suspected of having Covid19 into isolation, bringing the total to 10,026 after 5,818 left.
The virus has killed 435,446 people globally and infected 7,988,615 so far.
The World Health Organisation declared Covid19 pandemic on March 11 following the emergence of the new coronavirus in China’s Wuhan province in December last year.
Bangladesh has been enforcing general holidays to stem the infection since March 26.
Shops and offices started to reopen from May 31.
But again, the government is going for stricter lockdown in some areas categorized as ‘red zones’ based on the density of the patients.
The red zone is followed by yellow zone and green zone.