5 die from Covid

The daily number of coronavirus deaths has reached five, the highest this year.

The Directorate General of Health Services recorded the deaths in the 24 hours preceding 8:00am yesterday.

During the same period, 36 new infections were confirmed, also the highest in a day this year, said the DGHS.

The cases were detected after testing 621 samples.

Since January 1, 433 Covid-19 cases have been recorded. Of those, 275 were reported this month, DGHS data shows.

All 16 deaths reported this year occurred between June 5 and June 22.

Of the five patients reported dead yesterday, three were from Chattogram division and one each from Dhaka and Rajshahi divisions.

Each belonged to a different age group: 11-20, 41-50, 61-70, 71-80, and 91-100. Four were men and one was a woman.

One of the deceased in Chattogram was a 14-year-old boy with chronic kidney disease, and the other was a 45-year-old woman who had tuberculosis, said Civil Surgeon Jahangir Alam.

In Chattogram, 12 new cases were detected after testing 253 samples, he added.

Amid rising numbers of infections, the DGHS urged people to wear masks.

The first Covid-19 cases were reported in the country on March 8, 2020, and the first death 10 days later.

The coronavirus has caused 29,515 deaths in Bangladesh so far.