Covid cases on the rise again
The country recorded a spike in daily Covid cases as the health directorate logged 495 new infections in 24 hours preceding 8:00am yesterday.
The previous day, the figure was 397.
With this, Bangladesh reported daily coronavirus cases above 400 after two months. On October 19, it logged 469 new Covid infections.
The spike in coronavirus cases comes at a time when the country is seeing cases of Omicron variant. Seven people have so far been infected with the new variant that is taking hold across Europe.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) yesterday said the new cases were detected after testing 21,079 samples during the 24-hour period.
The daily positivity rate went up to 2.37 percent from Tuesday's 2.10 percent.
One died from Covid-19 during those 24 hours, taking the total number of deaths to 28,063. The death rate is 1.77 percent.
The deceased was a man, aged between 61-70, the DGHS said in a release.
The total number of confirmed Covid cases now stands at 15,84,518.
Though the number of daily deaths registered was below five since December 13, the number of daily new cases was mostly over 250, according to DGHS data.
On December 11, Bangladesh reported its first two Covid Omicron cases in two members of its women's cricket team after its return home from Zimbabwe.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh approved Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines for use in its booster shot programme.
DGHS officials said people will not be given any option to choose booster shots, rather one vaccine from those three will be administered.
Bangladesh has been administering Oxford-AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Moderna, Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines for the first two doses.
The National Immunization Technical Advisory Group (NITAG) recommended only Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca shots be used for boosters.
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