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   Health
Bangladesh reports 10 COVID-19 deaths, 4,80,216 total recoveries
  Date : 29-03-2024

Health Desk

Bangladesh recorded 10 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths and 443 fresh cases overnight.

The recovery count rose to 4,80,216 after another 472 patients were discharged from the hospitals during the period, a press release of the

Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said on Monday. “Ten more COVID-19 patients died in the last 24 hours, increasing the death toll from the pandemic to 8,137,” the release said.

It said the tally of infections has surged to 5,35,582 as 443 new cases were confirmed in the last 24 hours.

A total of 12,475 samples were tested at 206 authorized laboratories across the country during the time.

Of the total sample tests in the past 24 hours, 3.55 percent tested positive, while 14.62 percent cases were detected from the total tests conducted so far, the release added.

 

Among the total infections, 89.66 percent patients have recovered, while 1.52 percent died so far since the first COVID-19 positive cases were reported in the country on March 8.

 

Among the 10 deaths, nine are male and one is female the press release

said, adding one is in his 40s, two are in their 50s while seven are above 60

years.

 

According to the division-wise data, seven deaths took place in Dhaka

division and rests are in other divisions.

 

Among the total 8,137 fatalities, 4,532 deaths occurred in Dhaka division,

1,494 in Chattogram division, 463 in Rajshahi division, 551 in Khulna

division, 246 in Barishal division, 305 in Sylhet division, 357 in Rangpur

division and 189 in Mymensingh division, according to the press release.

 

A total of 36,64,197 samples have so far been tested since the detection

of the first COVID-19 cases in the country.

 

The DGHS said in order to make treatment facilities easily available for

the COVID-19 patients, the government has introduced telemedicine services

comprising 100 physicians for round the clock in the country.

 

A total of 7,14,357 people have so far received healthcare services from

telemedicine.

 

The DGHS said 2,35,02,716 people received healthcare services from hotline

mobile numbers and health web portals as the government formed a group of

medical professionals to provide emergency healthcare services.

 

To receive information and treatment facilities on COVID-19, the contact

hotline and mobile numbers are 16263; 333; 10655 and 01944333222.

 

As of February 1, 2021, 10:27 GMT, 2,239,013 people have died so far from the COVID-19 outbreak and there are currently 103,577,230 confirmed cases in

212 countries and territories, according to Worldometer, a reference website

that provides counters and real-time statistics for diverse topics.

 

China was the world’s first country which on January 11 reported the first death from the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, the capital of Central China’s

Hubei province.



  
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