The number of coronavirus cases and deaths continue to rise in Bangladesh. The government on Saturday confirmed the detection of 2,635 new cases across the country in the last 24 hours till 8am, taking the total number to 63,026.
During the same period, 35 more patients died from the disease, pushing the death toll to 846.
Additional Director General for Health Prof Dr Nasima Sultana disclosing those figures in her daily virtual briefing said they had tested 12,486 samples in 50 labs which mean the new case detection rate was 21.10 percent.
The number of recoveries surged to 13,325 with 521 more patients made recovery on Saturday.
The recovery rate is 21.14 percent against the total number of detected cases, and the mortality rate is 1.34 percent.
Prof Nasima highlighted that based on the reports collected so far, 77.06 percent of the deceased are male and 22.94 percent are female.
Among the dead, 28 were male and seven were female.
Two were aged between 11 and 20 years, three between 21 and 30, two between 31 and 40, three between 41 and 50, 10 between 51 and 60, five between 61 and 70, nine between 71 and 80 and one was aged between 81 and 90 years.
Twenty patients died in Dhaka division, eight died in Chattogram division, two in Sylhet division, three in Rajshahi division and two more died in Barishal division.
Twenty-five of them died in hospitals across the country and nine died at home while another was declared dead upon arrival at a hospital.
TMSS Medical College in Bagura is the latest in the country to start RT-PCR test while Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University refrained from testing due to laboratory cleaning procedures.
Across the country, 314 more people were taken to isolation in the last 24 hours while 98 were released. Currently, 7,162 people are in isolation.
During the same period, 1,789 people were home and institutionally quarantined and 2,811 were released. At present 56,297 people are in quarantine across the country.
