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Bangladesh records 36 Covid deaths, 1,908 new cases in 24 hours

| Updated: November 28, 2020 20:45:11


Bangladesh records 36 Covid deaths, 1,908 new cases in 24 hours

Bangladesh has recorded 36 fatalities and 1,908 new cases of the coronavirus in last 24 hours till 8:00am Saturday.

The death toll surged to 6,580 while the total number of infections so far reached 460,619, according to a release of the health directorate.

The number of new recoveries outpaced active cases in the same period as another 2,209 patients recovered from the disease at home and in hospital care, bringing the total to 375,885.

As many as 14,012 samples were tested at 118 authorised labs in the last 24 hours, yielding a positivity rate of 13.62 per cent, according to data released by the health directorate.

The latest official figures put the recovery rate at 81.60 per cent, while the mortality rate stands at 1.43 percent.

Globally, over 61.70 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 1.44 million have died, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.

Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019, reports bdnews24.com.

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