COVID-19: Govt reports 1182 cases testing less than 10,000 samples

Prothom Alo   4 October 2020
Staff Correspondent
People waiting to be tested, lie on the ground early in the morning as they wait in the queue outside of a coronavirus testing centre amid concerns over coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 17 May 17, 2020.
People waiting to be tested, lie on the ground early in the morning as they wait in the queue outside of a coronavirus testing centre amid concerns over coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 17 May 17, 2020. Reuters

The number of detected novel coronavirus cases in Bangladesh on Saturday rose to 367,565 as 1,182 more people were found to be positive, after testing 9,554 samples in 24 hours.

During that time 20 more COVID-19 patients died, raising the total deaths in the country to 5,325, said a press release of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) today.

The rate of detection in the last 24 hours was 12.37 per cent, while the overall rate of detection of infected cases in Bangladesh as of Saturday stands at 18.57 per cent.

A total of 1,442 people recovered from the highly infectious disease in that time, taking the total to 280,069.

The overall rate of people recovered as of today stands at 76.20 per cent while the rate of death is 1.45 per cent, it added.

Of the people died in the last 24 hours, 17 were male and three female. Of the total deaths so far, 4,121 were males (77.39 per cent) and 1,204 females (22.61 per cent).

A total of 9,312 samples were collected in the last 24 hours. As of Saturday, the number of samples tested in Bangladesh stands at 19,79,805.

Bangladesh detected first coronavirus patient on 8 March and recorded first death on 18 March.

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