Six more die from Covid
Six people died of coronavirus in the last 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, reported the Directorate General of Health Services.
If immediate medical interventions are not considered, the death toll can rise significantly in the coming days, warned experts.
"Those who died today [yesterday] got infected around two weeks ago. There may be more such deaths as the transmission was higher in the last couple of weeks," said Mushtuq Hussain, consultant to the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), told The Daily Star yesterday.
After the transmission remained under control for around three months, it started rising early last month, indicating the beginning of the fourth wave of Covid-19 in the country.
A positivity rate below five percent for at least two weeks at a stretch indicates the end of the previous wave, according to experts.
A total of 29 Covid-19 patients have died since the current wave started, according to the DGHS data.
Of those, 11 died in the first two days of July.
Yesterday, the DGHS reported 1,105 fresh cases of Covid-19, indicating a sharp decline from 1897 the previous day.
The positivity rate also declined to 13.22 percent from 15.31 in the meantime, reported the DGHS.
Experts, meanwhile, warned that the gross violation of the health safety protocols marking the Eid-ul-Azha celebration may cause a further spike in transmission.
Prof Tahmina Shirin, director of the IEDCR, yesterday said, "The only way to stay safe is to maintain health safety rules."
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