Bangladesh has logged 1,181 new cases of the novel coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 511,261. The death toll climbed to 7,509 after 30 fatalities were registered in the 24 hours to 8 am Tuesday, according to data released by the government. As many as 14,588 samples were tested at 167 authorised labs across the country in the last 24 hours, yielding a positivity rate of 8.10 per cent, according to bdnews24.com. The latest official figures put the recovery rate at 88.91 per cent while the mortality rate stands at 1.47 per cent. Globally, over 81.33 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 1.77 million have died, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.

Source: bd News24 December 29, 2020 11:37 UTC