Positivity rate highest in 15 weeks

The country yesterday recorded 5.67 percent Covid-19 daily positivity rate, the highest in the last 15 weeks.

On September 20 last year, the positivity rate was 5.66 percent.

The rate crossed 30 percent mark in July and started dropping from August. It later went down to one percent.

Following the emergence of the new Covid variant Omicron, the daily cases started rising in Bangladesh like many other countries of the world.

Yesterday, Bangladesh recorded 1,146 new Covid cases in 24 hours preceding 8:00am, taking the total caseload to 1,591,093, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

This was the highest daily cases logged in the country in the last 100 days.

Meanwhile, one person died from Covid during the same 24-hour period. The dead was a female aged between 11 and 20 years.

With this, the total number of Covid fatalities in the country rose to 28,098. The death rate now stands at 1.77 percent.

A total of 20,204 samples were tested across the country in the 24 hours. Dhaka recorded the most cases among the eight divisions, logging 920.

At least 170 coronavirus patients have recovered during the same period. The total number of recoveries is 15,50,534 and the recovery rate is 97.45 percent.

Globally, over 300.38 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 5.47 million have died, according to statistics by Johns Hopkins University.