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The Health Department said Wednesday that the infection had spread rapidly in these districts. In one week, 24 more districts were added to the list of high-risk districts.
However, on Monday, the Additional Director General of the Department of Health, Prof. Mirzadi Sebrina Flora told reporters that 29 districts are at high risk of contracting coronavirus.
As such, two more districts were added to the list of at-risk districts within two days.
Districts with an average detection rate of more than 10 percent during one week have been identified as “high risk.” The average identification rate in these 31 districts is between 10 and 20 percent.
Moulvibazar is at the top of this list. Then there are Munshiganj, Chittagong, Dhaka, and Sylhet.
Other districts on the list are: Narsingdi, Khulna, Narayanganj, Rajbari, Feni, Noakhali, Chandpur, Shariatpur, Laxmipur, Comilla, Noakhali, Barisal, Rajshahi, Bogra, Narail, Nilphamari, Gazipur, Faridpur, Brahmanganbaria., Rgananbaria. , Natore, Tangail and Cox’s Bazar.
ASM Alamgir, scientific director of the government’s Institute of Pathology, Disease Control and Research, IEDCR, told bdnews24.com that the list was compiled according to the rate at which samples were analyzed in a district each week.
“Coronavirus samples are tested in these districts and if the detection rate is above 10 percent, those districts are said to be at high risk. These have been done in all districts. The detection rate in these districts is between 10 and 20. This list will be updated every week. “
Alamgir said that Dhaka and Chittagong were at high risk when new infections started to rise recently. Later the rest of the districts were added ”.
The coronavirus is growing rapidly in the country. In the last seven days from March 25 to 31, 30,046 people have been identified. The daily average is more than four thousand five hundred.
So far, 9,046 people have died from the coronavirus. So far 6 lakh 11,295 people have been affected.
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