Country sees one more Covid death

Bangladesh reported one more Covid-19-linked death and 109 fresh cases in 24 hours till this morning.

With the new numbers, the country's total fatalities rose to 29,466 and caseload to 2,043,881, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The daily case test positivity rate increased to 4.35 per cent from Wednesday's 4.28 as 2, 504 samples were tested.

The recovery rate also increased slightly to 9.38 from previous 98.33 per cent. However, the death rate remained unchanged at 1.44 percent.

Bangladesh registered its highest daily caseload of 16,230 on July 28 in 2021 and highest number of fatalities of 264 on August 10 the same year.