Cases pass 3k a day first time this month

The country yesterday saw daily Covid-19 cases cross the 3,000-mark for the first time this month with 3,200 people testing positive for the virus.

Earlier, 3,009 coronavirus cases were recorded on July 29, and the number remained below the 3000-mark since then, thanks to inadequate testing.

In 24 hours till 8:30am yesterday, the virus claimed 46 lives -- the second highest number of daily deaths this month. On August 4, the country saw 50 deaths from Covid.

In most of the days this month, the daily deaths were below 40.

As of yesterday, the total number of deaths was 3,740 and that of confirmed cases 282,344.

With 14,630 tests done yesterday, 13,78,819 samples have been tested in 91 laboratories across the country since January 21.

The overall positivity rate was 20.48 percent -- much higher than the global standard parameter of 5 percent which indicates that the transmission is under control.

More than 57 percent of the confirmed cases have recovered while the rest are undergoing treatment.

Of those who died yesterday, 35 were male and 11 female. Almost half of them were above 60 while 17 were between 51 and 60.

Twenty-three of the dead were from Dhaka Division, six from Chattogram, four from Rajshahi, seven from Khulna, two from Barishal, three from Rangpur and one from Mymensingh Division.

So far, Dhaka Division has seen the highest number of Covid deaths -- 1,791.