Bangladesh records 2nd highest single-day COVID-19 deaths

ZOOMBANGLA DESK: Bangladesh today registered 261 deaths in past 24 hours, the second highest single-day toll since the pandemic’s outbreak while it logged 8,136 COVID-19 positive cases during the same period.

“The pandemic claimed 261 lives in a span of 24 hours, pushing the nationwide coronavirus death toll to 22,411 so far,” Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said in its routine daily statement.

The official tally showed the virus infected 13,43,396 so far while the country posted 264 COVID-19 deaths on July 5 , the highest single-day toll, it added.

It said 25.65 percent of the 31,714 samples collected in 24 hours were tested positive while the infection rate was only 2.30 percent just on February 8 this year as during the late winter season, the rate started decreasing sharply.

The recovery count rose to 11,88,820 after another 16,383 patients were discharged from the hospitals during the past one day.

The DGHS statistics showed of the people infected from the beginning, 88.49 percent recovered, while 1.67 percent died.