Staff Reporter:
Bangladesh reported eight more Covid-19 cases in the 24 hours till Saturday morning.
With the new numbers, the country’s total caseload rose to 2,038,461, according to the Directorate Gen-eral of Health Services (DGHS).
However, the official death toll from the disease remained unchanged at 29,446 as no new fatalities were reported.
The daily case test positivity dropped to 1.64 percent from Friday’s 1.9 percent as 488 samples were tested.
The recovery rate increased to 98.4 percent. However, the death rate remained unchanged at 1.44 per-cent.
Bangladesh registered its highest daily caseload of 16,230 on July 28 in 2021 and highest number of fatalities of 264 on August 10 the same year.
