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15,801 patients recover from coronavirus in Ctg
CHATTOGRAM, Oct 19, 2020 (BSS) – The total number of recovered patients from the lethal coronavirus rose to 15,801 in the district with curing 45 more people in the last 24 hours.
“The recovered 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,” said Dr Sheikh Fazle Rabbi, civil surgeon of Chattogram.
A total of 301 people died in the district due to Covid-19 till today.
Besides, 91 fresh cases were detected in the last 24 hours in the district after testing 1,133 samples with infection rate of 8.3 percent.
Among the newly detected patients, 84 are from Chattogram city and seven from
Patiya upazila of the district, hospital sources said.
The total number of infected patients now stands at 20,201 in the district, the sources added.
Of the total 20,201 coronavirus infected people, 14,703 are the residents of the port city and the rest 5,498 are the inhabitants of different upazilas of the district.
Besides, 1,172 patients are undergoing treatment at isolation units of different hospitals in the port city, the health official mentioned.
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