Bangladesh reports 76 Covid-19 deaths, 4846 fresh cases

People, wearing protective suits, walk along a graveyard to join in a funeral of a person who died due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 6 April 2020
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The number of detected novel coronavirus cases in Bangladesh, according to the government, on Tuesday rose to 861,150 as 4,846 more cases were reported, after testing 25,028 samples, including rapid antigen tests, in the last 24 hours.

During that time 76 more Covid-19 patients died, raising the total deaths in the country to 13,702, said a press release of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) today.

The rate of detection in the last 24 hours until 8:00 am was 19.36 per cent, while the overall rate of detection of infected cases in Bangladesh as of Tuesday stands at 13.50 per cent.

The health directorate today said a total of 2,903 people were recovered from the highly infectious disease in the last 24 hours, taking the number of total recovery to 788,385.

The overall rate of people recovered as of today stands at 91.55 per cent while the rate of death is 1.59 per cent, it added.

Of the people died in the last 24 hours, 42 were male and 34 female. Of the total deaths so far, 9,810 were male (71.60 per cent) and 3,892 female (28.40 per cent).

Among the 76 patients died in the last 24 hours, 72 breathed their last at different hospitals while four at their homes.

Among the Covid-19 patients died in that time, 14 were in Dhaka division, 10 in Chattogram, 14 in Rajshahi, 27 in Khulna, two in Barishal, six in Rangpur and three in Sylhet divisions.

Among the patients died in Bangladesh so far, 7,415 were in Dhaka, 2,613 in Chattogram, 898 in Rajshahi, 1028 in Khulna, 409 in Barisal, 506 in Sylhet, 547 in Rangpur, and 286 in Mymensingh division, the DGHS said.

A total of 25,338 samples were collected in the last 24 hours. As of Tuesday, the number of samples tested in Bangladesh stands at 63,76,819.

Bangladesh detected first coronavirus patient on 8 March last year and recorded its first death in the disease on 18 March that year.