By: AswathyP
The number of COVID-19 patients rose to 1,08,775 in Bangladesh, with the detection of 3,240 more cases in the past 24 hours ending 8:00am Saturday.
The death toll from the novel coronavirus rose to 1,425 on the day as 37 more died of the viral disease in the country during the same period.
‘In the past 24 hours, 14,031 samples were tested across the country and 3,240 of them found positive for COVID-19,’ Directorate General of Health Services additional director general Nasima Sultana said in the regular online bulletin.
Bangladesh confirmed the first COVID-19 cases on March 8 and the first death from the infection on March 18.
The country entered 16th week of infections on Sunday.
The death and infection increased manifold in recent weeks.
In the outgoing 15th week, 24,396 people tested positive for coronavirus and 286 people died of COVID-19.
In the 14th week, 21,353 people tested positive and 293 died.
Earlier, 18,418 people tested positive and 236 died in the 13th week, 12,530 tested positive and 158 died in 12th week, 11,083 tested positive and 138 died in 11th week and 7,225 tested positive and 100 died in the 10th week.
The infections started increasing from the 10th week after the government eased the lockdown by opening markets, shopping malls and factories.
The ninth week, the number of detection was 4,980 with 29 deaths in the ninth week and 3,792 with 35 deaths in the eighth week.
Experts feared that the novel coronavirus infection and death might climb on in the coming days as the government on May 31 lifted restrictions on the public movement, resumed public transports services, businesses and offices.
Nasima said that among the 37 new deceased, 29 were males and eight were females.
Of them, 1 was in 11-20, 2 were in 21-30, 2 were in 31-40, 5 were in 41-50, 13 were in 51-60, 7 were in 61-70 and 6 were in 71-80 age-groups while the rest one was above 100.
On Saturday, 11,915 suspected patients were in isolation while 1,048 more patients were declared ‘recovered’ as they were not showing any symptoms of the infection now.
So far, 43,993 COVID-19 patients have been declared recovered based on the health services-prescribed ‘assessment’.
The guideline determines ‘recovery’ without any confirmatory tests of the patient that they have become coronavirus negative.
