About 80 percent of corona infections in the country are of Indian variant, says a study. The study also found an unidentified variant of coronavirus.
Disease Control and Research and Institute for Developing Science and Health Initiatives (ideSHi) have performed the studies. It also said that it completed genome sequencing of 50 samples of coronavirus.
The new mutating corona virus, also known as the Delta variant, was dominating the coronavirus transmission in the country as 40 of the 50 samples tested in laboratory turned out to be the Indian variant.
Among the patients infected with Delta variant, 14 had not gone abroad and did not come in contact with people with travel history.
The Delta variant was found in samples collected from Dinajpur, Gaibandha, Bagerhat, Jhenidah and Pirojpur.
Out of 16 samples collected from Chapainawabganj, 15 were Delta variant, and all seven samples from Gopalganj was the same Indian variant, the study found.
All three samples collected from Khulna were Indian variant while two out of four samples collected from Dhaka was of Delta variant.
The Indian variant was first detected in October last year. It is far more transmissible than the virus's previous strains. World Health Organisation has termed the variant ‘variant of concern’.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh recorded 1,887 new infections in 24 hours till 8am on Friday, further increasing the infection rate. The total number of people infected so far has reached 8,07,867 with the new cases.
The country registered 34 more deaths from Covid-19 in the during the same time, taking the total death toll to 12,758.
The death rate now stands at 1.58 percent in the country, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Friday.
The current infection rate stands at 10.40 percent while the total infection rate stands at 13.42 percent, added the official release.
The number of fatalities and newly infected has increased compared to a day earlier. The country recorded 30 deaths and 1,687 new cases on Thursday.
Among the 34 deceased, 20 were men, and 14 were women. Of the victims, 31 died in different hospitals across the country while three died at home.
Nine of the deceased were from the Dhaka division, six from Chattogram, five each from Rajshahi, Khulna, and Rangpur, three from Sylhet, and one from Barishal division.
A total of 18,151 samples were tested across the country till 8am Friday.
At least 1,723 Covid-19 patients have recovered during the period. The total number of recoveries now stands at 747,758 and the recovery rate stands at 92.56 percent.
As of Friday, 3,718,267 people died of Covid-19 across the world and 172,938,652 have been infected so far, according to Worldometer.
Meanwhile, Disease Control and Research and Institute for Developing Science and Health Initiatives (ideSHi) have completed genome sequencing of 50 samples of coronavirus.
