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COVID-19 cases cross 20000 marks in Ctg
CHATTOGRAM, Oct 17, 2020 (BSS) – The number of coronavirus (COVID-19) positive cases in the district has crossed the 20,000 marks as 82 fresh cases were reported in the last 24 hours.
“The total number of COVID-19 patients now stands at 20,055 in Chattogram district till today,” Civil surgeon Dr Sheikh Fazle Rabbi told BSS.
Among the total infected persons, 14,565 are the residents of the port city and the rest 5,540 are residents of different upazilas of the district.
A total of 82 people were detected positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours after testing 748 samples in seven COVID-19 laboratories in the district.
Among the newly detected patients, 75 are from Chattogram city and seven from different upazilas of the district, hospital sources said.
Besides, the total number of recovered patients from coronavirus rose to 15,696 with the healing of 70 more people in the last 24 hours.
“The healed patients were discharged from different home isolations and Dedicated Corona Isolation Hospitals of the district after two consecutive real-time PCR tests were found negative,” Dr Rabbi said.
A total of 1,232 persons are undergoing treatment at isolation units of different hospitals in the port city as 15,696 have recovered and 289 died with today’s one death while the rest 2,838 are undergoing treatment in isolation at their respective homes in the city and district, he added.
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