ZCZC
BSS-15
COVID-19-CTG
COVID-19 cases cross 16000- mark in Ctg
CHATTOGRAM, Aug 19, 2020 (BSS) – The number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in the district has crossed the 16000 mark as 145 fresh cases were reported in the last 24 hours.
With today’s one death, the number of coronavirus (COVID-19) death in the district reached 257.
“The total numbers of COVID-19 patients are now stand at 16,119 only in Chattogram district till today,” Civil surgeon Dr Sheikh Fazle Rabbi told BSS today.
Among the total infected persons, 11,524 are the residents of the port city and the rest 4,603 are residents of different upazilas of the district.
A total of 145 people were detected positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours after testing 941 samples in five COVID-19 laboratories in the district.
Among the newly detected patients, 121 are from Chattogram city and 24 from different upazilas of the district, hospital sources said.
The total number of recovered patients from coronavirus rose to 3,709 with the healing of 62 more people in the last 24 hours.
“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,” the civil surgeon said.
A total of 4,987 are undergoing treatment at isolation units of different hospitals in the port city as 3,709 have recovered and 257 died while the rest 7,172 are undergoing treatment in isolation at their respective homes in the city and district, he added.
BSS/MAM/KS/FI/ 1616 hrs