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74 more test positive for COVID-19 in Ctg
CHATTOGRAM, Jan 14, 2021 (BSS) – A total of 74 people were tested positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours after testing 1,793 samples at eight COVID-19 laboratories in the district.
Among the newly infected patients, 68 are from Chattogram city and six from different upazilas of the district, hospital sources said.
The number of coronavirus (COVID-19) positive cases reached at 31,833 amid the frequent decreasing trend of daily infection rate in recent days here, Dr Sheikh Fazle Rabbi, civil surgeon of Chattogram told BSS today.
Among the total infected patients, 24,821 are the residents of the port city and the rest 7077 are the inhabitants of different upazilas of the district
A total of 29,942 coronavirus patients have so far recovered from Covid-19 and the percentage of recovery rate stands at 94.22 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.
Dr Fazle Rabbi said that the death toll from the virus rose to 365 with no fatality reported afresh in the last 24 hours.
Among the 365 fatalities, 260 are from Chattogram city and 105 from different upazilas of the district, hospital sources said.
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