Bangladesh reports record virus deaths, highest cases

ZOOMBANGLA DESK: Bangladesh today reported 40 more deaths from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the highest in a daily count, bringing the death toll from the pandemic to 650.

“The caseload has also surged to 47,153 as the highest number of 2545 new COVID-19 cases were detected in the last 24 hours,” DGHS Additional Director General Prof Nasima Sultana told a virtual media briefing at the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) in the city.

She said the recovery count rose to 9,781 after another 9781 patients were discharged from the hospitals at the time.

She also informed that a total of 11,876 samples, the highest in a single day, were tested at 52 authorised labs across the country during that time.

Bangladesh confirmed the first coronavirus death on March 18, ten days after the detection of the first COVID-19 cases.