Banglsdesh daily coronavirus cases lowest 5.36pc, deaths rise.

Bangladesh sees swings in coronavirus incidence with the daily infection rate further falling to the lowest 5.36 percent, though deaths rose to 22 by official count. The low incidence raises hope for controlling the pandemic with heightened safeguards and right medications, even if vaccine arrival is delayed, said Prof Dr ABM Abdullah, chief physician to the prime minister. "It's rather better to wait and see the efficacies of the vaccines being applied abroad and collect the most effective and cheapest ones," Prof Abdullah, himself convalescing from corona attack, told a television programme. The 692 new cases of the novel coronavirus in the daily count took the tally of infections so far to 521,382. The death toll rose to 7,756 after the 22 fatalities registered in the 24 hours to 8 am Saturday, according to data released by the government. The number of fresh recoveries outpaced active cases in the same period as another 785 patients recovered from the illness through treatment at home and in hospital care, bringing the total to 466,064. A total of 12,908 samples were tested at 181 authorised labs across the country in the last 24 hours, yielding the positivity rate of 5.36. The latest official figures put the recovery rate at 89.39 percent while the mortality rate stands at 1.49 percent for days. Globally, over 89 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 1.91 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. 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 delirious situation, with the latter having experienced "the deadliest day" with over 4,000 casualties on Thursday. The USA made a new record of cases. 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...