Shawdesh Desk:

Thakurgaon logged 132 fresh Covid cases and seven deaths in 24 hours till Sunday morning.

The new cases of infections were detected after the test of 386 samples, said civil surgeon Dr Mahfuzar Rahman Sarkar.

“The new cases have pushed up the district’s positivity rate to 46.15%,” he said.

Of the total infected people, 46 were from Sadar upazila, 15 from Baliadangi, 21 from Pirganj, 40 from Ranishankoil and nine from Haripur upazilas of the district.

So far, some 3735 people in Thakurgaon have been infected with the virus, while 94 have died of Covid.

Some 2261 people have recovered from the deadly virus as of now.

Meanwhile, the local administration has filed 32 cases and fined people Tk 28,100 for flouting lockdown rules on Saturday.

The government imposed a nationwide lockdown on July 1 for one week to break the chain of Covid transmission.