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Amirul Momenin

Bangladesh: COVID-19 claims 24 more lives

Bangladesh Live News | @banglalivenews | 21 Oct 2020, 11:14 pm

Dhaka: In the last 24 hours, 24 more people have died due to coronavirus in the country.

Among them 19 are males and five are females. The death toll from the virus rose to 5,623 people. On Wednesday (October 21) in the afternoon, the Additional Director General of the Department of Health (Administration), Professor. This information was given in a press release signed by Nasima Sultana.

In the last 24 hours, 14,091 samples were collected and 14,006 samples were tested in 110 laboratories to detect coronavirus. At the same time, another 1,545 new cases of coronavirus have been identified. As a result, the total number of identified patients in the country stood at three lakh 93 thousand 131 people. So far, the total number of sample tests is 22 lakh six thousand 411.

It further said that one thousand 604 people have recovered in the last 24 hours. With this, the total number of healthy patients stood at three lakh 9 thousand 445 people. Compared to the sample test in 24 hours,

The patient identification rate is 10.97 percent and so far the patient identification rate is 16.72 percent compared to the sample test. The recovery rate is 7.56 percent and the mortality rate is 1.46 percent compared to the patient identified. Of the total deaths in Corona so far, 4,404 are males (7.95 per cent) and 1,319 are females (23.5 per cent).

Age-based analysis has shown that in the last 24 hours, out of 24 people killed in Corona, one is in his twenties, two in his forties, eight in his fifties and 13 in his sixties.

Of the 24 deaths in Corona in the last 24 hours, 16 were in Dhaka, three in Chittagong, two in Rajshahi, one in Khulna and one in Rangpur.