Covid update: Country reports 342 new cases, one death

Bss, Dhaka

Bangladesh yesterday reported 342 Covid-19 cases while the Coronavirus claimed overnight one life.

"The country reported 2.02 percent Covid-19 positive cases as 16,913 samples were tested in the past 24 hours," Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said in its routine daily statement.

In the past 24 hours, the combined figure of Coronavirus in Dhaka city and upazilas of the district is 291 while no Covid-19 death was reported during the period.

The official tally showed that the virus killed 28,055 people and infected

15,82,710 so far.

The recovery count rose to 15,46,956 after another 292 patients were discharged from the hospitals during the past one day.

From the beginning of the pandemic, 97.74 percent Covid-19 patients

recovered among the infected people while 1.77 percent died, the DGHS

statistics showed.

 The DGHS said among the total 28,055 fatalities, 12,249 occurred in Dhaka

division, 5,688 in Chattogram, 2,059 in Rajshahi, 3,618 in Khulna, 949 in

Barishal, 1,273 in Sylhet, 1,372 in Rangpur and 847 in Mymensingh divisions.