Ctg records lowest 1.93pc Covid-19 positivity rate

Publish | 05 Oct 2021, 16:57

Online Desk

The district recorded lowest Covid-19 positivity rate of 1.93 percent while 29 fresh cases of virus infection were reported after testing 1,500 samples during the last 24 hours till this morning.

"The Covid-19 situation is improving consistently during the last few weeks in the district," civil surgeon Dr Sheikh Fazle Rabbi told BSS.

With the new infection, the Covid-19 cases reached 101,879.

"The number of cured patients from the lethal virus stood at 86,898 in the district with the recovery of 13 more patients in the last 24 hours," Dr Rabbi said, adding that the percentage of recovery is 85.23.

With one more fatality in a day, the death toll reached 1,305 here.

A total of 2165 infected patients are now undergoing treatment at designated hospitals in the district.

Source: BSS