Bangladesh has registered six fatalities from COVID-19 in a day, taking the death toll to 27,847. The COVID-19 caseload rose to 1,568,857 after 294 people tested positive until 8 am Thursday, according to the latest government data, reports bdnews24.com. Dhaka registered the most daily deaths and new cases among the eight divisions, logging four fatalities and 206 infections. The latest figures put the recovery rate at 97.70 per cent and the mortality rate at 1.77 per cent. Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.

Source: bd News24 October 28, 2021 13:52 UTC