Daily-death record broken thrice in eight days; death toll crosses 15000
UNB, Dhaka: Bangladesh once again shattered all the previous records of single-day deaths reporting 154 fatalities in 24 hours till Sunday morning, pushing up the death toll to 15,065.
With this, the daily-death record was shattered thrice within eight days as 143 deaths were reported on July1 and 119 deaths on June 27.
During the period, 8,661 more Covid cases were detected after testing 29,879 samples, overwhelming the country’s healthcare system quickly.
This raises the country’s case positivity rate during the period to 28.99% from Saturday’s 27.39%, according to a handout provided by Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
With the fresh cases, Bangladesh’s caseload now mounted to 944,917 today.
