Bangladesh records 80 new deaths due to COVID-19 in past 24 hours
Dhaka: Bangladesh, a country that recorded a severe COVID-19 pandemic, registered 80 new deaths due to Coronavirus and 3,436 new cases between 8am Friday and 8am on Saturday, media reports said.
During the same period, 4,861 Covid-19 patients also recovered across the country, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), reports Dhaka Tribune.
The latest data took the country death toll to 25,926, the total caseload to 1,489,589, and the total number of recovered patients to 1,409,231 – since the deadly disease made landfall in Bangladesh back in March last year, the newspaper reported.
25,129 samples were also tested at 789 labs across the country between Friday and Saturday morning.
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