Country logs first Covid deaths in 2 months

Bangladesh reported two more Covid-19 deaths in 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, read a press release of the Directorate General of Health Services.

The last death from Covid-19 was reported on March 28.

Of the dead, one was male and another female. They were aged between 61 and 70 and from Dhaka, according to the press release.

With the latest count, the total number of casualties in the country due to Covid-19 increased to 29,448.

Meanwhile, the DGHS also reported 89 Covid-19 cases after testing 1,509 samples in the same 24 hours.

The positivity rate was 5.87 percent.

In the past few days, case positivity rate started rising and hovered around 6 percent.