Covid: Deaths drop to 13, cases 2,150 in 24hrs

The country recorded 13 more Covid-linked deaths in the last 24 hours ending at 8:00am on Saturday. The death tally stands at 28,944. Some 2,150 new cases were also detected during the time, bringing the number of cases to 1,931,304.
Besides, 7,478 Covid-19 patients recovered from the viral disease, pushing up the 1,745,332 and overall recovery rate at 90.37
per cent, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).    The country logged positivity rate of  8.71 per cent in the last 24 hours while the overall positivity rate stands in the country at 14.65 per cent and the death rate at 1.50 per cent. In the past 24 hours, 857 labs across the country tested 24,698 samples.
Of the 13 deceased, seven were male and six were female. Of them, five were from Dhaka, four from Chattogram, one each from Rajshahi, Khulna, Barisal and Rangpur divisions.
The cases of Omicron variant of Covid-19 jumped to 106 in the country, with 37 more infections being detected till Sunday, according to GISAID, a primary source that provides open access to genomic data of coronavirus.However, the country's maiden cases were reported on March 8, on 2020. The first death from the virus was reported on March 18 of the same year.
The coronavirus disease broke out in China's Wuhan city in late December 2019 and quickly spread throughout the world, becoming a pandemic in less than three months.
The fast-spreading coronavirus has so far claimed over 5.8 million lives and infected over 412 million people throughout the world, according to Worldometer.
More than 333 million people have recovered from the disease, which has affected 223 countries and territories across the planet.