BD reports 27 more deaths, 932 new cases

Bangladesh has logged 27 more deaths from the novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours till Monday at 8am.

The number of fatalities from the virus in the country has reached 7,479, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

In the meantime, 932 people have tested positive for Covid-19, taking the total number of novel coronavirus cases to 510,080.

The latest day's infection rate was 7.39% of the total tests, though the overall rate in the country till date was 16.02%. The death rate stands at 1.47%.

At least 1,357 patients recovered from Covid-19 during the same period, raising the total number of recoveries to 453,318 with an 88.87% recovery rate.

Among the latest day's victims, 23 were men and four were women. All the victims died in different hospitals across the country.

Moreover, 18 of them hailed from Dhaka, seven from Chattogram, one each from Khulna and Rangpur divisions.

Meanwhile, 12,617 samples were tested in 167 labs across the country in the past 24 hours. A total of 31,84,527 samples have been tested in the country so far.

The gender breakdown of Covid-19 victims shows that 5,698 of the total deaths were of men and 1,781 were of women.

The country's first Covid-19 case was reported on 8 March this year and the first death from the virus was reported on 18 March.

Global deaths cross 17 lakh

Globally, the deadly virus has killed at least 1,773,404 people since the outbreak emerged in China last December, according to the Worldometer at 8:00 am GMT on Monday.

At least 81,204,441 people have tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Of them, 57,354,218 have recovered so far.