Covid-19 deaths and infections have increased in the country again, after days of declining cases.
Bangladesh registered 37 more deaths from Covid-19 till 8am Wednesday taking the death toll to 12,248.
The number of newly infected has also spiked in the last three days. The country recorded 1,608 new infections in the meantime taking the total number of people infected to 7,83,737, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Wednesday.
The number of infected cases was 1,272 on Tuesday, 698 on Monday, May 17 and 363 on Sunday, May 16.
However, the death rate still stands at 1.56 percent in the country, added the release.
The current positivity rate stands at 7.83 percent. The total positivity rate stands at 13.62 percent.
Among the 37 deceased, 24 were men and 13 were women. All of them died in different hospitals across the country.
16 of them hailed from Dhaka, 15 from Chattogram, two each from Khulna and Sylhet and one each from Mymensingh and Rangpur divisions.
A total of 20,528 samples were tested across the country till 8am Wednesday.
At least 1,923 Covid-19 patients have recovered during the period. The total number of recoveries now stands at 7,26,132a nd the recovery rate at 92.65 percent.
As of Wednesday, 3,420,795 lives people died of Covid-19 across the world and 164,963,559 have been infected so far, according to Worldometer.
