The latest government’s data suggests that the number of coronavirus cases is rising in Bangladesh.
The health department on Saturday confirmed 2,686 fresh cases in the last 24 hours which is low in the number of infections in recent days.
Those cases were found by testing 11,193 samples, additional director general for health Prof Nasima Sultana said at the daily briefing.
It means that the rate of detection among the sample tested was 24 percent which is more than the average rate of 21-22 percent.
The World Health Organization earlier urged countries grappling with coronavirus to step up control measures, saying it is still possible to rein it in, as some nations clamp fresh restrictions on citizens.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on countries to adopt an aggressive approach, highlighting Italy, Spain, South Korea and India’s biggest slum to show it was possible to stop the spread, no matter how bad the outbreak.
Prof Nasima said in the last 24 hours, 30 more patients died of Covid19 and 1,628 patients have recovered during the time.
So, the total death toll rose to 2,305 and the number of total infections stood at 181,129. Some 88,034 patients made recoveries.
Of the deceased, 12 were from Dhaka, 14 from Chattogram, six from Khulna, three from Rangpur and two each from Sylhet, Mymensingh and Rajshahi divisions.
Eighteen of them have died in different hospitals, eleven at their respective homes and one was diagnosed with the infection after death.
According to the analysis of Covid-19 victims' age groups as of Saturday, the highest number of patients - 43.60 percent - died till date were aged sixty and above.
The age groups of 51-60 and 41-50 come next with respectively 29.76 percent and 14.62 percent. Rest of the age groups stand under eight percent, such as- 31-40 with 7.07 percent, 21-30 with 3.21 percent, 11-20 with 1.13 percent and under ten with 0.61 percent (13).
The gender-wise analysis of victims stated that some 1,824 people who have died from Covid-19 are male and 481 are female, which are 79.13 percent and 20.87 percent respectively.
Currently, 63,452 people are quarantined across the country – including 2,142 newly-quarantined individuals. A total of 327,871 people have completed their quarantine course.
The authorities placed 853 new individuals suspected of having Covid-19 into isolation, bringing the total to 17,491 after 18,227 left.
Bangladesh first confirmed the disease in three persons on March 8 and the first death on March 18.
Around 48.60 percent of novel coronavirus patients have recovered in Bangladesh so far, while 1.27 percent have died, according to government data.
