DHAKA: In Bangladesh Covid-19 related death currently accounted at 10,385, one infected person died every 14 minutes in the last three days.

On Sunday, as per reports, Bangladesh registered 102 new fatalities, the highest single-day spike since the first reported Covid-19 death on March 18, 2020. Both on Saturday and Friday, there were 101 new deaths.

Of the deceased, 59 were male and 43 were female. Sixty-three of them were aged above 60, 23 were between the age range 51-60, 14 were between 41-50, and two people were aged between 31-40. Sixty-eight of the victims were reported in Dhaka, 22 in Chittagong, four each in Mymensingh city and Barisal, three in Rajshahi, and one in Khulna.  Remarkably, The seven-day average of single-day Covid-19 deaths, with Sunday's tally, shot up to 92.2 per cent.

Meanwhile, the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) hospital with 1,000-bed capacity was inaugurated on Sunday morning as a dedicated COvid facility with all necessary facilities to treat infected patients.

The government has prepared the DNCC hospital as a dedicated one within a short time installing all modern equipment to protect the lives of the coronavirus positive patients." As a second wave of the pandemic hit Bangladesh, the government enforced a lockdown from April 5 for a week.

Till Sunday afternoon, a total of 5.6 million people had received the first dose and 1.1 million received the second dose of a Covid-19 vaccine. The daily infection rate stands at 19 percent, while the overall rate is 13.9 percent in the country. With the updated data, the country's overall Covid-19 caseload currently stood at 718,950.

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