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16,488 patients recover from coronavirus in Ctg
CHATTOGRAM, Oct 31, 2020 (BSS) – The total number of recovered patients from coronavirus rose to 16,488 in the district with the healing of 55 more people in the last 24 hours.
A total of 16,488 coronavirus patients have so far recovered from Covid-19 and the percentage of recovery rate stands at 77.84 in the district,” Dr Sheikh Fazle Rabbi, civil surgeon of Chattogram, told BSS today.
The recovered patients were discharged from different home isolations and Dedicated Corona Isolation Hospitals of the district as two consecutives real- time PCR tests were found negative, he said.
A total of 303 people died in the district due to Covid-19 till today.
Besides, 92 fresh cases were detected in the last 24 hours in the district after testing 852 samples with infection rate of 9.26 percent.
Among the newly detected patients, 70 are from Chattogram city and 20 others from different upazilas of the district, hospital sources said.
The total number of infected patients now stands at 21,184 in the district, the sources added.
Of the total infected people, 15,494 are the residents of the port city and the rest 5,688 are residents of different upazilas of the district.
Besides, 1,102 patients are undergoing treatment at isolation units of different hospitals in the port city, the health official mentioned.
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