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92 more test positive for COVID-19 in Ctg
CHATTOGRAM, Jan 25, 2021 (BSS) – A total of 92 people were tested positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours after testing 1333 samples at seven COVID-19 laboratories in the district.
The infection rate is 5.40 percent.
Among the newly detected patients, 88 are from Chattogram city and four from different upazilas of the district, hospital sources said.
The number of coronavirus (COVID-19) positive cases reached at 32,670 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, 25488 are the residents of the port city and the rest 7182 are residents of different upazilas of the district.
A total of 30,594 coronavirus patients have so far recovered from Covid-19 and the percentage of recovery rate stands at 93.64 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.
A total of 1,922 infected patients were also undergoing treatment in designated hospitals in the port city, sources said.
Dr Sheikh Fazle Rabbi said that the death toll from the virus rose to 367 with no fatalities reported afresh in the last 24 hours.
The health official mentioned that the persons, who came in contact with COVID-19 patients, were identified and they were asked to remain in home isolation so that the virus cannot spread further.
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