The recovery rate from Covid-19 pandemic is rising in Bangladesh by the day with the expansion of treatment facilities.
Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Saturday said the death toll still remained low in Bangladesh because the health sector took quick steps as per Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's directive.
He made the comment while inaugurating the Zainul Haque Sikder Women's Medical College and Hospital as Covid-19 facility.
According to the Directorate General of Health Services, 40.44 percent patients have recovered while only 1.31 percent died so far since the first cases were reported in Bangladesh on March 8.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina earlier asked countrymen to keep confidence as she asserted that she would not bow down to the ‘invisible enemy’ of a virus.
She asked all to wear masks in public places which are seen as an effective way to contain the transmission of the virus from person to person.
The health department in its daily bulletin on Saturday said 37 more patients died from coronavirus and 3,240 fresh cases were detected in the last 24 hours till 8am.
With that, the total number of deaths rose to 1,425 and cases 108,775.
The recovery count rose to 43,993 after another 1,048 patients were discharged from the hospitals during the period.
They have tested 14,031 samples during the time across Bangladesh.
Bangladesh confirmed the first coronavirus death on March 18, ten days after the detection of the first COVID-19 cases.
When the first cases were confirmed, Bangladesh had only one RT-PCR laboratory.
The prime minister quickly released Tk250 crore to help the health ministry expand facilities across Bangladesh including setting up new laboratories.
With the engagement of private sector such as Zainul Haque Sikder Women's Medical College, over 50 labs are now testing Cvoid-19.
The government has also reopened offices and businesses gradually in a balance between lives and livelihoods.
People have been asked to follow the health guidelines such as wearing masks in public places, maintaining physical distancing and washing hands with soap.
WHO said data from published epidemiology and virologic studies provide evidence that COVID-19 is primarily transmitted from symptomatic people to others who are in close contact through respiratory droplets, by direct contact with infected persons, or by contact with contaminated objects and surfaces.
In an analysis of 75,465 COVID-19 cases in China found that airborne transmission was not reported.
People of all ages can be infected by the new coronavirus. Older people, and people with pre-existing medical conditions such as obesity, asthma, diabetes, and heart disease appear to be more vulnerable to becoming severely ill with the virus.
WHO advises people of all ages to take steps to protect themselves from the virus, for example by following good hand hygiene and good respiratory hygiene.
Currently, 62,518 people are quarantined across the country – including 1,538 newly-quarantined individuals.
A total of 274,246 people have completed their quarantine course.
The authorities placed 628 new individuals suspected of having Covid-19 into isolation, bringing the total to 12,102 after 7,268 left.
The virus has killed 462,905 people globally and infected 8,776,448.
So far 4,640,220 people have recovered from the virus worldwide.
