International Desk: Bangladesh on Friday recorded 40 deaths from coronavirus in the span of 24 hours, raising the death toll to 1,661.
The number of total COVID-19 patients also surged to 1,30,474 to as the health authorities confirmed the detection of 3,868 new cases across the country during the same period.
Additional Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Prof Dr Nasima Sultana came up with the disclosure at its daily health bulletin on this afternoon.
In the last 24 hours, 66 coronavirus testing laboratories across the country tested 18,498 samples, Dr Nasima added.
During the same period, 1,638 more patients made recovery, she said adding so far, 53,133 people have recovered from the disease.
The detection rate of new patients on Friday has been recorded at 20.91 percent.
Against the total number of detected cases, the recovery rate is 40.72 percent and the mortality rate is 1.27 percent in the country.
Among the deceased, 31 were male and nine were female. “Their age-based analysis says, one was aged below 10 years, three were aged between 31 and 40 years, six between 41 and 50, 12 between 51 and 60, 14 between 61 and 70, three between 71 and 80, and one more patient was aged between 81 and 90 years,” Dr Nasima said.
Fourteen patients died in Dhaka division, 12 in Chattogram division, four in Khulna division, four in Barishal division, three in Sylhet division, and three more patients died in Rangpur division.
“Thirty one people died at hospitals across the country while nine others at homes,” she added.
Dr Nasima assured that sufficient beds are ready for Covid-19 patients.
“Within Dhaka city, there are 16 hospitals dedicated to COVID-19 patients while outside of Dhaka district there is one. In total there are 6773 general beds and 180 ICU beds,” Dr Nasima said.
At present, 2,375 patients are admitted to general beds and 97 in ICU beds.
“In all the divisions combined there are 14,610 general beds for coronavirus patients and 379 ICU beds. In those hospitals, 4,691 patients are admitted to general beds and 183 are in ICU beds,” she added.
