Bangladesh
Coronavirus COVID-19: Two deaths, 31 new cases reported in last 24 hours
Own Correspondent, Dhaka, May 23: The Covid-19 death toll in Bangladesh has climbed to 29,130 as two deaths were reported in 24 hours from 8 am on Sunday to 8 am on Monday.
With 31 new cases of coronavirus detected in the last 24 hours, the total number of identified Covid-19 patients in the country has reached 19 lakh 53 thousand 264. The detection rate is 0.67 percent.
According to a regular press release on the Covid-19 situation in the country issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Monday (May 23), the number of people recovered from Covid-19 in the country till date has reached 19 lakh one thousand 157 with 193 recoveries reported in the past 24 hours.
From 8 am on Sunday to 8 am on Monday, 4,607 samples were collected and 4,659 samples were tested in the government and private laboratories across the country.
Since the outbreak of Covid-19 in 2020 till date, the overall detection rate in the country is 13.87 percent.
On March 8, 2020, the first Covid patient was detected in Bangladesh, while the country reported the first death due to coronavirus on March 18 in the same year.
Bangladesh recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day on August 5 and 10 last year with registering 264 Covid-related fatalities on each of those days.
