UNB, Dhaka
Bangladesh registered a single-day death of 101 from Covid-19 for the second consecutive day in 24 hours until Saturday, pushing up the total fatalities to 10,283.
The country shattered its previous all records of single-day death count with 101 fatalities on Friday.
With the latest figure, the mortality rate rose to 1.44 percent, the Directorate General of Health Services said in a handout.
However, 3473 new cases were detected during the period as the number of tests has declined significantly in the last 5-6 days. Only 15,413 samples were tested during the period.
The daily infection rate fell to 21.46 percent from Friday’s 23.36 percent. Bangladesh reported its first coronavirus cases on March 8 last year and the first death on the 18th of that month.
With the new cases, the total caseload reached 715,252 while the total number of recoveries 608,815, including 5,907 in the last 24 hours.
