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Bangladesh reports 172 more Covid deaths
Bangladesh reported 172 more coronavirus-related deaths and 7,248 fresh infections in 24 hours till Wednesday morning.
Dhaka, Aug 18 : Bangladesh reported 172 more coronavirus-related deaths and 7,248 fresh infections in 24 hours till Wednesday morning as concern remains over the virulent Delta Variant of the virus.
The country has been seeing fatalities below 200 for the last six days, a slight improvement from the July 25- August 13 period when daily deaths were recorded over 200.
The fresh numbers took the country’s total fatalities to 24,719 while the cases to 1,440,644, according to a handout issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS)
The new cases were detected after testing 41,014 samples which lowered the case positivity rate to 17.67 % from Tuesday’s 19.18 %, still much higher that the WHO recommendation of bringing it below 5%.
Meanwhile, the case fatality rate increased to 1.72 % after staying unchanged at 1.71% for some days, reports UNB.