Bangladesh on Tuesday, a week after relaxing the general holidays, witnessed the record daily jump of the new cases of coronavirus and deaths from the disease Covid-19.
The health department in the daily briefing confirmed 45 deaths from the novel coronavirus and 3,171 new cases of infection testing 14,664 samples in the last 24 hours till 8am.
With this, the death toll from the pandemic virus rose to 975 and the number of total infections surged to 71,675, Additional Director General for Health Prof Nasima Sultana said.
The government confirmed the first cases on March 8. The World Health Organisation declared the disease pandemic on March 11.
The government has been enforcing general holidays to contain the spread of the virus since March 26.
But all offices and businesses were allowed to reopen from May 31 after the Eid-ul-Fitr holidays.
However, people have been asked to maintain physical distancing.
A new zonal system – red, yellow and green – has been introduced to maintain strict lockdown in the areas which are worst affected.
The additional director general said of the new deceased, 33 were male and 12 female. Of them, 28 were from Dhaka, 11 from Chattogram and two each from Rajshahi, Rangpur, and Sylhet.
A total of 15,336 patients have recovered from the virus so far with 777 newly cured patients during the last 24 hours.
According to the latest data by DGHS, 21.40 percent coronavirus infected patients have recovered and 1.36 percent died. However, the infection rate has been 21.62 percent on Tuesday.
Currently, 56,638 people are quarantined across the country – including 2,602 newly-quarantined individuals.
A total of 249,389 people have completed their quarantine course.
Prof Nasima said the authorities placed 557 new individuals suspected of having Covid-19 into isolation, bringing the total to 7,893 after 4,535 left.
The virus has killed 408,986 people globally and infected 7,211,147 so far.
The WHO asked people to wear masks when they cannot maintain physical distance in a crowded place. People have been asked to wash hands frequently with soap and not to touch their mouth, nose or eyes in unclean hands.
