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218 more test positive for COVID-19 in Ctg
CHATTOGRAM, Dec 16, 2020 (BSS) – A total of 218 people were tested positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours after testing 1,576 samples at eight COVID-19 laboratories in the district.
Among the newly detected patients, 183 are from Chattogram city and 35 from different upazilas of the district, hospital sources said.
The number of coronavirus (COVID-19) positive cases reached 28,330 amid the frequent rising trend in the daily infection rate in recent days only in the district, Dr Sheikh Fazle Rabbi, civil surgeon of Chattogram, told BSS today.
Among the total patients, 22,245 are the residents of the port city and the rest 5,971 are the inhabitants of different upazilas of the district.
Dr Sheikh Fazle Rabbi said that the death toll from the virus rose to 334 with one fatality reported afresh in the last 24 hours.
Meanwhile, a total of 25,611 coronavirus patients have so far recovered from Covid-19 and the percentage of recovery rate stands at 90.51 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.
Besides, 1,925 patients are undergoing treatment at isolation units of different hospitals in the port city, he added.
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