Covid claims 6 more lives
Six more people died of Covid-19 in the country in last 24 hours till 8:00am taking the death toll from the virus to 29,223.
A total of 1,324 new Covid cases have been detected in the country after testing 11,126 samples in 880 labs, the Directorate General of Health Services said on Thursday.
The rate of detection was 11.89 per cent while the recovery rate stood at 96.28 per cent.
Of the persons died on Thursday, four were male and two female. Dhaka and Mymensingh divisions saw three deaths apiece.
Some 1,747 patients recovered from the virus during 24 hours while death rate stands at 1.47 per cent.
Since the pandemic broke out in Bangladesh in March 2020, the country reported the highest number of daily fatalities of 264 on 10 August last year, while the highest daily caseload was 16,230 on 28 July last year.