Bangladesh witnessed the biggest daily jump in the number of new cases and deaths on Sunday as the government confirmed 40 patients died and 2, 545 got infected with coronavirus overnight.
With that, the death toll surged to 650 with 482 deaths in the month of May only. The government confirmed the first death on March 18, ten days after reporting the first three cases on March 8.
Additional Director General for Health Prof Dr Nasima Sultana giving 24 hours’ update till 8am of Sunday said the number of total cases now rose to 47,153.
She said they had tested 11,876 samples in 52 labs during the period. The previous record of highest death count in a day within 24 hours was 28 on Saturday.
The detection rate of new cases on Sunday has been recorded at 21.43 percent. In the last 24 hours, 406 more patients made recovery, Prof Nasima said, adding that so far 9,781 people have recovered from the disease.
Against the total number of detected cases, the recovery rate is 20.74 percent and the mortality rate is 1.38 percent in Bangladesh.
Among the deceased, 33 were male and seven were female. Of them, 28 died in Dhaka division, eight in Chattogram division, two in Khulna division, one in Rajshahi division and another died in Rangpur division.
One was aged between 21 and 30 years, five were aged between 31 and 40 years, 11 between 41 and 50, eight between 51 and 60, 11 between 61 and 70 and four more between 71 and 80 years.
Across the country, 281 more people were taken to isolation in the last 24 hours while 126 were released. Currently 5,794 people are in isolation.
During the same period, another 2,947 people were home and institutionally quarantined and 3,042 were released.
At present 60,181 people are quarantined across the country. The government opened all offices and public transport services on Sunday.
However, the government’s technical advisory committee had suggested continuing the general holidays for few more days until the situation improves.
The pandemic virus killed 371,186 people globally and infected 6,172,448 so far.