Bangladesh sees highest 164 Covid deaths, 9,964 infections

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Bangladesh has reported 164 novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths, the highest number in a single day since its first detection on March 8 last year.

During the period, Bangladesh also broke its all-time record of cases with 9,964 fresh infections, according to a handout provided by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Monday.

The new cases were detected after testing 34,002 samples, said DGHS.

This was reported just after logging record 153 deaths on Sunday.

“A total of 164 Coronavirus patients died in the last 24 hours increasing the death toll from the virus to 15,229. The total cases of infection have surged to 954,881 as 9,964 new cases were confirmed during the period,” said the DGHS.

This puts the country’s case positivity rate at peak 29.30 %.

The new numbers took the country’s death toll to 15,229 while the caseload to 954,881.

The recovery count rose to 8,39,082 after another 5,185 patients were discharged from the hospitals during the past one day.

The DGHS statistics showed of the people infected from the beginning 87.87 percent recovered, while 1.59 percent died.