Banglsdesh daily coronavirus cases lowest 5.74pc, deaths 16.

Bangladesh sees swings in coronavirus incidence with the daily infection rate plummeting to lowest 5.74 percent and deaths to 16, raising hopes for controlling the pandemic with heightened safeguards and right medications. Bangladeshi physicians and analysts living in the UK and the USA were searching for factors behind limited cases and casualties over here while their host countries are witnessing delicious situation, with the matter having experienced "the deadliest day" with over 4,000 casualties on Thursday. They point out differences in weather conditions and compliance with the restrictions and health protocols as well as various immunisation drives in Bangladesh for fortifying immunity from the very antenatal-postnatal periods of birth and in later stages of life. Local medics suggest far stricter enforcement of mask use as they attribute the downturn in transmission to upturn in masking faces in urban areas, particularly in the capital, Dhaka. "No alternative to circumspection-- anytime the low wave may be reversed," says IEDCR adviser Dr Mostaque Hossain, advising the need for going by the health protocols. The health department Friday reported 785 new cases of the novel coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 520,690. The death toll rose to 7,734 with the 16 fatalities registered in the 24 hours to 8 am Friday, according to data released by the government. The number of fresh recoveries outpaced active cases in the same period as another 833 patients recovered from the illness through treatment at home and in hospital care, bringing the total to 465,279. A total of 13,681 samples were tested at 181 authorised labs across the country in the last 24 hours, yielding a positivity rate of 5.74 percent. The latest official figures put the recovery rate at 89.36 percent, while the mortality rate stands at 1.49 percent. Globally, over 88.07 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 1.89 million have died, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019. Bangladesh saw daily corona deaths jump to 31 Thursday from Wednesday's 17 while cases rise a bit to 1,007, warranting improvement in both curative and preventive treatments. As vaccination commencement in the country still looks uncertain as procurement timing not affirmed, medics suggest strict...