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Covid-19 : Positivity rate reduces further to 14.76 %, 114 more die
Bangladesh reported 114 Covid-19 deaths in 24 hours until Wednesday morning .
Dhaka, Aug 25 : Bangladesh logged 114 Covid-19 deaths in 24 hours until Wednesday morning amid a steady decline in both cases and positivity rate raising hope for further improvement.
This was for the second consecutive day the number of fatalities stood at 114, the lowest in last two months.
The number of fresh Covid cases is also seeing a downtrend as 4,966 people were tested positive during this time compared to 5,249 in the previous day.
The fresh number pushed the country’s total fatalities to 25,627 while the cases reached 1,477,930, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The country last saw 112 Coronavirus- related deaths on June 29 and the fatalities jumped to 264 on August 5 and 10 when the country was under a strict lockdown.
The latest cases were detected after testing 33,640 samples during the last 24 hours, which reduced the daily case positivity rate to 14.76 % from Tuesday’s 15.12% and Monday’s 15.54 %, said the DGHS.
The recovery rate rose to 94.02%, but the case fatality remained unchanged at 1.73 % compared to the same period, reports UNB.