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22,814 recover from COVID-19 in Ctg
CHATTOGRAM, Dec 8, 2020 (BSS) – The total number of recovered patients
from coronavirus rose to 22,814 in the district with the healing of 213 more
people in the last 24 hours.
A total of 22,814 patients have so far recovered from Covid-19 and the
percentage of recovery rate stands at 84.8 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.
“One more Covid-19 patient died in the last 24 hours, increasing the
death toll from the pandemic to 317,” he added.
The total number of infections has surged to 26,904 as 213 new cases
were confirmed in the last 24 hours.
Of the total infected people, 20,972 are the residents of the port city
and the rest 5,892 are the inhabitants of different upazilas of the district.
A total of 1661 samples were tested at eight authorized laboratories in
the district during the time.
Among the newly detected patients, 180 are from Chattogram city and 33
others from different upazilas of the district, hospital sources said.
Besides, 1,812 patients are undergoing treatment at isolation units of
different hospitals in the port city, the health official mentioned.
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