Bangladesh reports 159 more Covid deaths, 6,566 fresh cases

Bangladesh logged 159 more coronavirus-related deaths and 6,566 fresh infections in 24 hours till Wednesday morning.

Dhaka, Aug 19 : Bangladesh logged 159 more coronavirus-related deaths and 6,566 fresh infections in 24 hours till Wednesday morning in a decreasing trend in both fatalities and cases even though concern remained  over the virulent Delta Variant of the virus.

The country has been seeing fatalities below 200 for the last seven 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 24,874 while the cases to 1,447, 210 according to a handout issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS)

The new cases were detected after testing  37,226  samples which lowered the case positivity rate to  17.64 % % , still much higher that the WHO recommendation of bringing it below 5%.

Meanwhile, the case fatality rate  remained static at 1.72 % .

Among the new deaths, 50 died in the Dhaka division 38 in Chattogram , 23 died in Sylhet 13 in Rajshahi, 12 in Khulna, 10 in Barishal, eight in Rangpur, and five died in the Mymensingh division, reports UNB.