CHATTOGRAM, Dec 27, 2020 (BSS) – A total of 107 people were tested positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours after testing 1,500 samples at five COVID-19 laboratories in the district.
Among the newly detected patients, 98 are from Chattogram city and nine from different upazilas of the district, hospital sources said.
The number of coronavirus (COVID-19) positive cases reached 29,725 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 infected patients, 22,981 are the residents of the port city and the rest 6,784 are residents of different upazilas of the district. Dr Sheikh Fazle Rabbi said that the death toll from the virus rose to 350 with no fatalities reported afresh in the last 24 hours.
A total of 28,748 coronavirus patients have so far recovered from Covid-19 and the percentage of recovery rate stands at 96.94 percent in the district, Dr Fazle Rabbi said.
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, 1,331 patients are undergoing treatment at isolation units of different hospitals in the port city.