The government on Tuesday reported 549 fresh coronavirus positive cases which is the single-day highest so far.
During the period between 8am of Monday and 8am of Tuesday, three more patients died of the disease and eight more made full recovery.
With that, the number of total coronavirus cases stood at 6462 in Bangladesh with 155 deaths and 139 recoveries from hospitals.
The government tested 4332 samples in the last 24 hours, Additional Director General for Health Prof Nasima Sultana said at the regular virtual bulletin at 2.30pm. Bangladesh first confirmed coronavirus cases on March 8 and the first death on March 18. The World Health Organisation declared the virus pandemic on March 11.
Till March 23, the number of patients was only six. With the increasing number of testing, the cases started rising form the April.
The government is so far testing from 25 centers for RT-PCR across Bangladesh with three more such facilities in the pipeline. So far, 54,733 samples have been tested.
About 70 percent patients are, however, taking treatment from home.
The government earlier said that the entire country is at risk of the virus spread and asked people to stay at home as it is enforcing social distancing measures by declaring general holidays till May 5.
Dhaka and Narayanganj are the hotspots with most of the patients are found from those districts.
As of April 27, Prof Nasima said, Dhaka city is considered as the worst-affected with nearly 52.26 percent of COVID-19 patients.
Dhaka division has remained top position with 85 percent infected cases out of total coronavirus patients. Narayanganj is the most hardest-hit district outside Dhaka with 699 cases till April 27, she said.
It is followed by Gazipur with 315 positive cases, Kishoreganj with 191 cases, Narsingdi with 142 cases, Mymensingh with 108 cases Dhaka district with 85, Munshiganj with 78 cases, Chattogram with 48 cases, Gopalganj with 50, Habiganj with 48 cases and Jamalpur with 45 cases.
The worst hit areas of Dhaka city are Mirpur with 131 cases and Rajarbagh with 110 cases, Mohammadpur 57 with cases, Lalbagh 65 with cases, Jatrabari 69 with cases, Bangshal with 47 cases, Chakbazar 32 with cases, Kakrail with 44 cases, Wari 36 cases, Shahbag, Uttara with 37 cases, Tejgaon with 40 cases, Dhanmondi with 36 cases, Mugda with 41 cases and Mahakhali 42 cases.
According to the age-group, 10 percent COVID-19 cases are in their 60s, 15 percent in their 50s, 18 percent in their 40s, 22 percent in their 30s, 24 percent in their 20s while eight percent is above 10 years and 3 percent below 10 years.
The additional director general, however, assured people of having adequate sufficient stock of testing kits.
“The government is also importing testing kits,” she said amid reports of less testing due to lack of kits.
She said two types of kits are needed. “One is used for collecting samples of suspected virus cases while another type is used at COVID-19 testing labs,” she explained.
People have been asked to call - 16263; 333; 10655 and 01944333222 – to receive information and treatment facilities on COVID-19.
The virus which first emerged from China in December so far infected over 3 million people worldwide. Over 200,000 died.
