Shawdesh Desk:

As the Covid-19 situation in Bangladesh has taken a turn for the worse again, 82 more people died of coronavirus in 24 hours until Sunday morning.

This is the highest daily death toll in the last 52 days as the country logged 88 deaths on April 29 this year.

During the period, 3,641 more Covid cases were detected after the test of 22,231 samples, said a handout issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

This takes the test positivity rate to 16.38% today from Saturday’s 18.02 %.

However, the country’s fatality rate remained static at 1.59%.

With the new numbers, the country’s caseload now stood at 851,668 while the death toll at 13,548, said the DGHS handout.

As of now, 782,655 people have recovered from the disease taking the recovery rate to 91.90%.

Bangladesh’s recovery rate has been falling for more than a week now.

Source: UNB