Bangladesh has registered 37 new deaths due to
COVID-19, raising the body count to 1,582, health officials said on Wednesday.
The case load surged to 122,660 after 3,462 people tested positive for COVID-19
in the past 24 hours, till Wednesday morning. Another 2,031 patients have
recovered from COVID-19 at home and in hospital in the same period, bringing
the total to 49,666, DGHS Additional Director General Nasima Sultana said in a
media briefing. The rate of recovery from COVID-19 currently stands at 40.49
percent, while the mortality rate is 1.29 per cent, bdnews24 reported. A total
of 16,433 samples were tested at 66 labs across the country with 21.07 per cent
returning positive results, according to government data. (IANS)
