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Corona infection gradually decreases in Ctg
CHATTOGRAM, Aug 26, 2020 (BSS) – Coronavirus infection has been declining in Chattogram district for the last two days while 76 people were detected positive for the deadly virus in the past 24 hours after testing 746 samples at six COVID-19 laboratories in the district.
The Infection rate is 10.16 percent now while it was 12.02 percent on Monday (August 24) and 13.62 percent on Sunday (August 23).
However, even before this, the rate and number of infections were low for three consecutive days. On August 22, the germs matched in the samples of 32 people with an infection rate of 10.88pc while 83 samples were found positive on August 21 with an infection rate of 12.42 percent. Besides, 89 people were detected positive for coronavirus with an infection rate of 10.90 percent on August 20.
Among the 76 newly infected people, 56 are residents of different wards in the city and 20 are the residents of different upazilas of the district. The total number of people infected with coronavirus in this region is 16,688. No one has died due to COVID-19 in Chattogram in the last 24 hours.
The total number of recovered patients from the deadly virus rose to 4,239 out of 15,558 infected people with the healing of 71 more persons during the period in the district till 2pm 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,” Dr Sheikh Fazle Rabbi, civil surgeon of Chattogram, said.
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