Bangladesh logs 92 new Covid cases, zero deaths


FE Team | Published: March 24, 2022 16:50:29 | Updated: March 25, 2022 08:23:50


Bangladesh logs 92 new Covid cases, zero deaths

Bangladesh has registered 92 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the tally of infections to 1,951,072.

But no new fatalities were registered in the last 24-hour count, keeping the death toll from the disease unchanged at 29,118, according to the latest government data released on Thursday.

As many as 12,111 samples were tested across the country, for a positivity rate of 0.76 per cent, reports bdnews24.com.

Among the eight divisions, Dhaka recorded the highest number of cases, with 67 infections.

Another 1,114 people recovered from the illness nationwide, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1,874,880.

The latest figures put the recovery rate at 96.09 per cent and the mortality rate at 1.49 per cent.

Globally, over 475.87 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 6.1 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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