Bangladesh on Saturday confirmed 552 fresh cases, five more deaths and three recoveries from coronavirus overnight.
With that, the total number of virus cases rose to 8,790 with 175 deaths and 177 recoveries, additional director general for health Prof Nasima Sultana said while giving the 24 hours picture between 8am of Friday and 8am of Saturday.
She said they had tested 5,825 samples in the last 24 hours out of the 6,193 samples collected across Bangladesh.
Calculating with the number of samples tested, she said the new case detection rate was slightly lower on Saturday than Friday.
On Friday they confirmed 571 new cases by testing 5,573 samples in 31 RT-PCR labs across Bangladesh.
Bangladesh confirmed the first coronavirus cases on March 8 and the first death on March 18. The WHO declared the virus pandemic on March 11.
A total of 76,066 samples have so far been tested since the detection of the first case.
However, most of the patients are staying at home with mild cases. Of the new five fatalities, three are male and two female. All of them were in Dhaka.
Dhaka and Narayanagnj remained the worst affected districts of the virus with 95 and 39 deaths respectively. Overall 134 deaths were under the Dhaka division.
Patients have been found in all but Rangamati districts.
Bangladesh is witnessing a rapid rise of cases since March 24 as 8,784 people tested positive for the virus during the time while the number was only 6 from March 8 to March 23 period.
The additional director general assured people of having adequate stocks of testing kits and said they are importing kits on regular basis.
There are 9738 isolation beds for coronavirus patients in Bangladesh now including 3944 in Dhaka city.
The global death toll from coronavirus climbed to 239,588 as of Saturday morning. Since it was first reported in China in December last year, coronavirus has infected 3,400,767 people globally, according to worldometer.
Of them, 2,079,587 are currently being treated and 51,355 among them are in serious or critical condition. So far, 1,081,592 people have recovered from COVID-19.
