CHATTOGRAM, Oct 13, 2020 (BSS) – With detection of 60 more positive cases in the last 24 hours, the total number of COVID-19 infected patients in the district climbed to 19,708.
Among the total infected people, 14,485 are the residents of the port city and the rest 5,223 are the inhabitants of different upazilas of the district, Dr Sheikh Fazle Rabbi, civil surgeon of Chattogram, told BSS today.
With the healing of 66 more infected patients, the total number of recovered COVID-19 patients rose to 15,778 while 289 death cases were reported till this noon.
“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 60 patients, 56 are from Chattogram city and four from different upazilas of the district, hospital sources said.
“The percentage of recovery rate now stands at 79.90 percent in the district,” the health official continued.
Besides, 1,148 patients are undergoing treatment at isolation units of different hospitals in the port city, he added.