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2020-07-19 04:07:04 BdST

COVID-19 cases cross 200,000, deaths reach 2,581BD reports 34 deaths, 2,709 new cases, 1,373 recovery in 24 hours


After more than four months of first detection of the novel coronavirus infection in Bangladesh, the tally of Covid-19 cases crossed the 200,000-mark and deaths reached 2,581 today.

With 2,709 freshly confirmed cases of the viral infection, the total cases reached 202,066. 

Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) reported 34 deaths on Saturday, the 133rd day of the outbreak in the country.

Additional Director General of Health Directorate Nasima Sultana made the disclosure during a virtual briefing today at 2:30 pm.

DGHS also confirmed 1,373 recoveries from the contagion in the 24 hours to 8:00 am, taking the total recovery tally to 110,098.

The virtual briefing was also told that 10,923 tests were conducted during the last 24 hours under review, taking the total test count to 1,017,674.

Currently, 59,693 people are quarantined across the country – including 1,781 newly-quarantined individuals. A total of 347,618 people have completed their quarantine course.

The country is capable of accommodating 31,991 people at 629 institutional quarantine facilities across the country.

Nasima Sultana said, "The authorities placed 779 new individuals suspected of having Covid-19 into isolation, bringing the total to 18,498 after 23,040 left."

As many as 16,828,398 hotline health services were given by 16,492 trained and 4,217 volunteer doctors via three designated numbers, including 97,203 in the last 24-hour till 8am today.

 

Bangladesh first confirmed its coronavirus cases and death on March 08 and March 18 respectively, and since March 26 it enforced a 66-day shutdown in parallel with general holidays.

But that shutdown did little to slow the coronavirus spread as numbers of cases continued to increase.

Bangladesh has since June 05 become one of the 20 largest coronavirus outbreaks in the world, overtaking the then European hotspot of Belgium as the 20th worst affected country.

Globally, 14,205,416 people have caught coronavirus, 599,716 died and 8,480,497 recovered as of 2:42pm, with the US becoming the worst-hit country with 3,770,138 cases and 142,065 deaths, according to the worldometer.info.

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