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In the last 24 hours (until 8 a.m. today), 24 more people have died from coronavirus infection in the country. At the same time, 910 new patients have been identified. Corona infection has been detected in 5 lakh 18,929 people in the country so far. 6,750 of them died. 4 lakh 61,515 people have recovered.
This information was given in the press release from the Department of Health on Monday.
Today there are less than a thousand new patients. However, in the last 24 hours, the number of tests has been relatively low. In the last 24 hours, 12,098 samples were analyzed in the country, including antigen-based tests. Taking into account the number of tests, the patient identification rate is 7.52 percent.
The first coronavirus infection was detected in Wuhan, China, in December last year. Gradually, the epidemic spread to almost every country in the world. The government said it first identified the infection on March 8 in Bangladesh.
Rates of early patient identification were low. The infection began to increase in mid-May. By the end of that month, the patient identification rate had exceeded 20 percent. By the third week of August, it was above 20 percent.
