Bangladesh reports 300 new Covid cases, two deaths


FE Team | Published: October 19, 2022 16:37:10 | Updated: October 20, 2022 08:21:48


Bangladesh reports 300 new Covid cases, two deaths

Bangladesh has recorded 300 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,033,419.

The death toll from the disease rose by two to 29,410 over the 24-hour period, according to the latest government data released on Wednesday.

As many as 4,176 samples were tested across the country, for a positivity rate of 7.18 per cent.

Dhaka logged the highest number of cases among the eight divisions, with 202 infections.

Another 411 people recovered from the illness nationwide, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1,975,817.

The latest figures put the recovery rate at 97.17 per cent and the mortality rate at 1.45 per cent, reports bdnews24.com.

Globally, over 625.79 million people have been infected by the coronavirus and 6.57 million have died, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.

Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.

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