Bangladesh hits new grim record with 164 single-day Covid deaths

Bangladesh hits record-high 164 Covid deaths in 24 hours until Monday morning.

Dhaka, July 5 :  Bangladesh, currently passing through the most frightful stage of Covid-19 second wave, reported another record-high 164 deaths in 24 hours until Monday morning.
During the period, Bangladesh also broke its all-time record of cases with 9,964 fresh infections, according to a handout provided by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
This was reported just after logging record 153 deaths on Sunday.
The new cases were detected after testing 34,002 samples, said the DGHS.
This puts the country's case positivity rate at peak 29.30 %.
The new numbers took the country’s death toll to 15,229 while the caseload to 954,881, reports UNB.