CHATTOGRAM, Jan 1, 2021 (BSS) – A total of 105 people were tested positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours after testing 1,582 samples at eight COVID-19 laboratories in the district.
Among the newly detected patients, 93 are from Chattogram city and 12 from different upazilas of the district, hospital sources said.
The number of coronavirus (COVID-19) positive cases reached 30444 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, 23595 are the residents of the port city and the rest 6,891 are residents of different upazilas of the district.
Dr Sheikh Fazle Rabbi said that the death toll from the virus rose to 359 with no fatalities reported afresh in the last 48 hours.
A total of 29234 coronavirus patients have so far recovered from Covid-19 and the percentage of recovery rate stands at 96.16 percent in the district, Dr Sheikh 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, 1,393 patients are undergoing treatment at isolation units of different hospitals in the port city.