351 Covid-19 cases, six deaths recorded in 24 hours


FE Team | Published: October 16, 2022 16:20:13 | Updated: October 17, 2022 08:22:28


351 Covid-19 cases, six deaths recorded in 24 hours

Bangladesh has recorded 351 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,032,443.

The death toll from the disease rose by six to 29,401 over the 24-hour period, according to the latest government data released on Sunday, a bdnews24.com report said.

As many as 5,988 samples were tested across the country, for a positivity rate of 5.86 per cent.

Dhaka logged the highest number of cases among the eight divisions, with 264 infections.

Another 620 people recovered from the illness nationwide, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1,974,208.

The latest figures put the recovery rate at 97.13 per cent and the mortality rate at 1.45 per cent.

Globally, over 624.50 million people have been infected by the coronavirus and 6.56 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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