DHAKA, Feb 21, 2022 (BSS) - Bangladesh today reported 1,951 Covid-19 cases
while the coronavirus claimed overnight nine lives.

  "The country reported 6.94 percent Covid-19 positive cases as 28,097
samples were tested in the past 24 hours," Directorate General of Health
Services (DGHS) said in its routine daily statement.

   In the past 24 hours, the combined figure of coronavirus in Dhaka city and
upazilas of the district is 1,299 while one Covid-19 death was reported
during the period.

   The official tally showed that the virus killed 28,974 people and infected
19,35,242 so far, the statement added.

   The recovery count rose to 17,63,258 after another 8,674 patients were
discharged from the hospitals during the past one day.

   From the beginning of the pandemic, 91.11 percent Covid-19 patients
recovered among the infected people while 1.50 percent died, the DGHS
statistics showed.

   The DGHS said among the total 28,974 fatalities, 12,722 occurred in Dhaka
division, 5,838 in Chattogram, 2,130 in Rajshahi, 3,706 in Khulna, 975 in
Barishal, 1,318 in Sylhet, 1,408 in Rangpur and 877 in Mymensingh division