CHATTOGRAM, Aug 21, 2020 (BSS) – The total number of recovered patients from coronavirus rose to 3,854 with the healing of 62 more people in the last 24 hours, out of 16,305 infected people, in the district till 2pm today.
“A total of 3,854 coronavirus patients have recovered so far and the percentage of recovery rate stands at 23.63 percent in the district,” Dr Sheikh Fazle Rabbi, civil surgeon of Chattogram, told BSS today.
“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.
In the district, two more patients have died from the deadly disease during the past 24-hours, Dr Rabbi added.
Besides, 89 more people were detected positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours after testing 816 samples at six COVID-19 laboratories in the district.
Among the newly detected patients, 72 are from Chattogram city and 17 from different upazilas of the district, hospital sources said.
Among the total 16,305 coronavirus infected people, 11,609 are the residents of the port city and the rest 4,696 are the inhabitants of different upazilas of the district.
“Among the total coronavirus infected persons, 5,002 are undergoing treatment at isolation units of different hospitals in the port city as 3,854 have recovered and 259 died while the rest 7,190 are undergoing treatment in isolation at their respective homes in the city and district,” Dr Fazle Rabbi said.