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Dhaka: Bangladesh has recorded the highest number of Covid-19 deaths in a day since the pandemic made landfall in the country in March last year.<\/p>\nDhaka: Bangladesh has recorded the highest number of Covid-19 deaths in a day since the pandemic made landfall in the country in March last year.<\/p>\n
The death toll climbed to 9,739 after 78 fatalities were registered in the 24 hours to 8:00am Sunday, according to data released by the government.<\/p>\n
The country has recorded 5,819 new cases of the coronavirus, taking the tally to 684,756.<\/p>\n
The latest day's infection rate was 19.81 percent of the total tests. The death rate stands at 1.42%.<\/p>\n
Another 4,212 people recovered from COVID-19 through treatment at home and in hospital care in the same period, bringing the tally of recoveries to 576,590 with an 84.20% recovery rate.<\/p>\n
Among the latest day's victims, 53 were men and 25 were women. Seventy-seven of them died in different hospitals across the country while one at home.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, 29,376 samples were tested in 248 labs across the country in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dhaka: Bangladesh has recorded the highest number of Covid-19 deaths in a day since the pandemic made landfall in the country in March last year. The death toll climbed to 9,739 after 78 fatalities were registered in the 24 hours to 8:00am Sunday, according to data released by the government. The country has recorded 5,819 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":67860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n