{"id":70945,"date":"2021-08-07T15:50:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T15:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=70945"},"modified":"2021-08-07T15:50:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T15:50:46","slug":"261-more-covid-deaths-reported-in-a-single-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=70945","title":{"rendered":"261 more Covid deaths reported in a single day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Dhaka:<\/strong> With Coronavirus and its new variant posing a real danger to the public health in Bangladesh, the country came up with another shocking figure of 261 fresh deaths on Thursday.<\/p>\n

This is the second-highest single day deaths from the viral disease in Bangladesh as Covid-19, fueled by the deadly Delta variant, continues to wreak havoc in the country.<\/p>\n

The country has been reporting over 200 single-day fatalities for the last two weeks as it races to head off a surge in Covid-19 cases driven by the unrelenting Delta variant.<\/p>\n

After weathering the first wave of the virus, now Bangladesh's hospitals are almost overwhelmed.<\/p>\n

The country registered 8,136 new cases on Saturday after testing 31,714 samples. It reported the highest daily Covid-19 fatality of 264 on August 5 and 16,230 infections on July 28.<\/p>\n

As more people are falling sick with Covid-19 and dying, hospitals in Dhaka and other cities are running out of beds.<\/p>\n

There have been 1,343,396 infections and 22,411 coronavirus-related deaths here since the pandemic began, according to the Directorate General of Health Services.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the daily test positivity rate fell to 25.65 % from 26.25%on on Friday, while the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends a 5% or below rate.<\/p>\n

However, the recovery rate rose to 88.89 % from 87.81% and the case fatality remained increased to 1.67% during this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dhaka: With Coronavirus and its new variant posing a real danger to the public health in Bangladesh, the country came up with another shocking figure of 261 fresh deaths on Thursday. This is the second-highest single day deaths from the viral disease in Bangladesh as Covid-19, fueled by the deadly Delta variant, continues to wreak […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":70946,"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