<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Bangladesh registered four more Covid-linked deaths with 2,183 new cases in 24 hours till Thursday morning amid an upward trend of Covid infections.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The fresh cases took the country's total caseload to 1,973,785 and the total fatalities rose to 29,149, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</div><div><br></div><div>The daily case positivity rate slightly increased to 15.70 per cent from Wednesday’s 15.23 per cent as 13,905 samples were tested during the period, said the DGHS.</div><div><br></div><div>Of the deceased three were men and one was woman. Of them two were from Chattogram division and one each from Dhaka and Rajshahi divisions.</div><div><br></div><div>On Wednesday, the country recorded 2,241cases with zero deaths from Covid-19.</div><div><br></div><div>The mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.48 per cent. The recovery rate declined to 96.64 per cent from Tuesday’s 96.73 per cent as 290 patients recovered during this period.</div><div><br></div><div>In May, the country reported only four Covid-linked deaths and 816 new cases, while 7,356 patients recovered from the disease, according to the DGHS.</div><div><br></div><div>Among the four deaths during the period, one was vaccinated with a single dose of Covid vaccine while three were vaccinated with two doses.</div><div><br></div><div>The country reported its first zero Covid death in a single day on November 20 last year, along with 178 cases, since the pandemic broke out here in March 2020.</div><div><br></div><div>On January 28, Bangladesh logged its previous highest positivity rate of 33.37 per cent.</div><div><br></div><div>The country registered its highest daily caseload of 16,230 on July 28 last year and daily fatalities of 264 on August 10 in the same year. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>