Five fresh Covid-19 cases were diagnosed after testing 32 samples at the 15.63 percent positivity rate in Rangpur division on Monday.
Health officials said the number of diagnosed fresh Covid-19 cases is showing a rising trend again in recent days in the division where the pandemic situation was improving in recent weeks. "With the diagnosis of the five fresh cases, the number of Covid-19 patients rose to 64,825 in the division," Divisional Director (Health) Dr. Abu Md. Zakirul Islam said on Wednesday.
The total number of recovered Covid-19 patients remained steady at 63,232 as no more patients healed during the last 24 hours ending at 8 am on Wednesday.
The number of casualties also remained steady at 1,289 as no new death was reported during the period. Meanwhile, more 9,337 doses of Covid-19 jabs were administered on Monday raising the number of inoculated vaccines to three crore 12 lakh 20 thousand and 484 doses in the division.
"Among the total administered Covid-19 jabs, 1,36,53,148 doses were inoculated as the first doses, 1,30,46,450 as the second doses and 45,20,886as the booster doses," Dr. Islam added.
