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119 tested positive for COVID-19 in Ctg
CHATTOGRAM, Aug 5, 2020 (BSS) – A total of 119 people were detected positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours after testing 625 samples at five COVID-19 laboratories in the district.
Among the newly detected patients, 85 are from Chattogram city and 34 from different upazilas of the district, hospital sources said.
The total number of infected patients now stands at 14,626 in the district, Dr Sheikh Fazle Rabbi, civil surgeon of Chattogram, told BSS today.
Among the total 14,626 coronavirus infected persons,10,243 are the residents of the port city and the rest 4,383 are residents of different upazilas of the district.
The total number of recovered coronavirus (COVID-19) patients rose to 2534 with healing of 123 more people in the last 24 hours among 14,626 infected persons in the district till 2pm today.
“A total of 2534 coronavirus patients recovered so far and the percentage of the recovery rate stands at 17.32 in the district,” Dr Sheikh Fazle Rabbi said.
“The healed patients were discharged from different home isolations and Dedicated Corona Isolation Hospitals of the district as two consecutive real-time PCR tests were found negative,” he said,
A total of 5,123 are undergoing treatment at isolation units of different hospitals in the port city as 2534 have recovered and 235 died while the rest 6734 are undergoing treatment in isolation at their respective homes in the city and district”, he added.
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