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COVID-19 cases in Ctg climb to 18,739
CHATTOGRAM, Sept 29, 2020 (BSS) – With detection of 44 more positive cases in the last 24 hours, the total number of COVID-19 infected patients in the district climbed to 18,739.
Among the total infected persons, 13185 are the residents of the port city and the rest 5,481 are the residents of different upazilas of the district, Dr Sheikh Fazle Rabbi, civil surgeon of Chattogram, told BSS today.
With healing of 76 more infected patients, the total number of recovered COVID-19 patients rose to 14,778 and 287 died.
“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.
Among the newly detected 44 patients, 31 are from Chattogram city and 13 from different upazilas of the district, hospital sources said.
“The percentage of recovery rate stands at 78.90 percent in the district,” Civil Surgeon Dr Sheikh Fazle Rabbi added.
Besides, 1,348 patients are undergoing treatment at isolation units of different hospitals in the port city, the sources added.
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