Bangladesh
Bangladesh COVID19 Bangladesh: Chattogram registers record 955 COVID cases, 10 deaths
Chittagong: The Chittagong region of Bangladesh has recorded 955 positive cases of COVID in the past 24 hours, media reports said on Tuesday.
During the same period, 10 people died due to the viral infection.
Bangladesh has been witnessing a hike in COVID-19 cases for the past several weeks, forcing the government to impose strictest lockdown.
As many as 2,649 samples were tested for the coronavirus, which yielded a 36.05 percent positivity rate, Civil Surgeon Sheikh Fazle Rabbi was quoted as saying by bdnews24.
A total of 66,784 people have tested positive for the virus since the start of the outbreak in Chattogram district, of whom 790 have died, according to the civil surgeon's office, ther news portal reported.
