BD reports 43 more deaths, 1,447 new cases

Bangladesh recorded 43 new coronavirus-related deaths in a 24-hour period until 8:00am Saturday, pushing the local death tally to 12,801.

With 1,447 new cases during this period, the country’s caseload soared to 8,09,314.

The overall infection rate stood at 13.41 percent as the mortality rate went up to 1.58 percent, the Directorate General of Health Services said in a press release.

Among the latest day's victims, 30 were men, and 13 were women. Of the victims, 42 died in different hospitals across the country while one at home. 

Moreover, 12 each of the deceased hailed from the Dhaka and Rajshahi divisions, eight from Chattogram, five from Khulna, three from Ranpur, two from Mymensingh and one from Sylhet division.

Also, 1,667 patients were declared free of Covid-19 during the last 24 hours, with a 92.60% recovery rate.

Bangladesh reported its first coronavirus cases on March 8, 2020 and the confirmed the first Covid-19 related death on March 18.

A nationwide lockdown is in force to tackle the spread of the virus and it is scheduled to continue until June 6.

Besides the lockdown, some stricter measures are also taken in a number of bordering districts to prevent the transmission of Covid-19 after the Delta variant of Covid, better known as Indian variant, spread across India.

Eighty per cent of the Covid-19 patients in Bangladesh have the Indian variant, also known as the Delta variant, found a study.

The first dose of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was administered on 58,20,015 people while 42,03,136 people got its second dose.

Till Friday, 2,162 people got the first jab of Sinopharm vaccine.

Coronavirus cases were first reported in China in December 2019. The virus went on to affect the entire world, putting the global economy into the worst recession since the Great Depression, according to IMF.