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4,108 patients recover from coronavirus in Ctg
CHATTOGRAM, Aug 25, 2020 (BSS) – The total number of recovered patients
from coronavirus rose to 4,108 with the healing of 93 more people in the last
24 hours among 16,614 infected persons in the district till 2pm today.
“A total of 4,108 coronavirus patients have cured so far and the
percentage of recovery rate stands at 24.72 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.
A total of 267 people died till today by the lethal virus in the
district.
Besides, 88 more people were detected positive for COVID-19 in the last
24 hours after testing 732 samples at six COVID-19 laboratories in the
district.
Among the newly detected patients, 68 are from Chattogram city and 20
from different upazilas of the district, hospital sources said.
Among the total 16,614 coronavirus infected persons, 11848 are the
residents of the port city and the rest 4766 are residents of different
upazilas of the district.
Besides, 4,814 are undergoing treatment at isolation units of different
hospitals in the port city as 4,018 have recovered and 267 died while the
rest 7,515 are undergoing treatment in isolation at their respective homes in
the city and district”, Dr Fazle Rabbi said.
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