CHATTOGRAM, Aug 17, 2020 (BSS) – With detection of 36 more positive
cases in the last 24 hours after testing 368 samples in four COVID-19
laboratories, the total number of COVID-19 infected patients in the district
has surged to 15,846.
With one more death, the total number of fatalities now reached 256 in
the district, said Dr Sheikh Fazle Rabbi, civil surgeon of Chattogram.
Among the newly detected patients, 28 are from Chattogram city and eight
from different upazilas of the district, hospital sources said.
Of the total infected persons, 11,300 are the residents of the port city
and the rest 4,547 are residents of different upazilas of the district.
The total number of recovered patients from coronavirus rose to 3,580
with the healing of 58 more people in the last 24 hours among the total
infected persons in the district till 2pm today.
“The healed patients were discharged from different home isolations and
Dedicated Corona Isolation Hospitals of the district as two consecutive real-
time PCR tests were found negative,” Dr Sheikh Fazle Rabbi said.
A total of 4,940 are undergoing treatment at isolation units of
different hospitals in the port city as 3,529 have recovered and 256 died
while the rest 7,121 are undergoing treatment in isolation at their
respective homes in the city and district, he added.