Bangladesh registered 119 more deaths from Covid-19 till 8am Sunday, breaking the previous record of single-day death toll on April 19 when 112 people died of the deadly disease. The total number of deaths has reached 14,172 with the latest figure.
This is the highest number of deaths recorded in the span of a single day since March 8, 2020 when the first case of coronavirus was detected.
The country recorded 5,268 new infections in the meantime taking the total number of people infected to 8,88,406 according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Sunday.
The death rate now stands at 1.60 percent in the country, added the release.
The number of fatalities and infections has increased significantly compared to a day earlier. The country recorded 77 deaths and 4,334 infections on Saturday.
The current positivity rate stands at 21.59 percent and the overall positivity rate stands at 13.65 percent.
Among the 119 deceased, 75 were men, and 44 were women. Of the victims, 113 died in different hospitals across the country, four at home and two died on the way to hospital.
32 of the deceased were from the Khulna division, 24 from Dhaka, 22 each from Rajshahi and Chattogram, nine from Rangpur, five from Sylhet, three from Mymensingh and two from Barisal division.
A total of 24,400 samples were tested across the country till 8am Sunday.
During this period 3,249 Covid-19 patients have recovered. Up until now, a total of 8,04,103 people have recovered from the virus and the recovery rate stands at 90.51 percent.
As of Sunday, 3,934,393 people died of Covid-19 across the world and 181,626,332 have been infected so far, according to Worldometer.
Covid-19 deaths have been on an upward trend in the last few days, especially in the border districts. The government has announced a countrywide complete lockdown from July 1 to contain the spread of coronavirus.
Whether the spreading of the virus is under control in a country depends on some indicators set by the World Health Organization. One of them is the patient identification rate. If the patient identification rate is below 5pc for more than two consecutive weeks, the situation is considered to be under control. From the beginning to the end of February this year, the detection rate was below 3pc. Two months later, on March 10, the daily affected crossed a thousand people once again. Since then, daily cases have been increasing.
