Bangladesh has confirmed 13 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours to 7pm on Tuesday, bringing the total number of infections this year to 215. According to DGHS, the latest cases were identified after testing 101 samples, resulting in a positivity rate of 12.87 percent. Since the onset of the pandemic in 2020, Bangladesh has tested 15,726,224 samples, confirming a total of 2,051,739 Covid-19 cases. In 2023, as many as 37 people died due to Covid-19 after 1,368 had died in 2022. Earlier, the DGHS issued precautionary measures in response to a surge in cases of new sub-variants of Covid-19 in several neighbouring countries, including India.
