Banglsdesh daily coronavirus cases, deaths both rise.

Bangladesh sees swings in coronavirus incidence with the daily infection rate rising to 8.29 from 5.36 percent and death count climbing to 25, warranting better medical and non-medical interventions both. Yet the incidence seems low compared to a bit winter explosion in some major countries particularly in the West, and it raises hope for controlling the pandemic with heightened safeguards and right medications, "even if vaccine arrival is delayed". Prof Dr ABM Abdullah, chief physician to the prime minister, is among the optimists who, however, stress further tightening containment measures besides right medications. "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. Bangladesh recorded 1,071 new cases of the novel coronavirus in the latest daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 522,453. The death toll climbed to 7,781 with the 25 fatalities registered in the 24 hours to 8 am Sunday, according to data released by the government health department. Another 737 patients recovered from the illness through treatment at home and in hospital care in the same period, bringing the total to 466,801. A total of 12,920 samples were tested at 181 authorised labs across the country in the last 24 hours, yielding a positivity rate of 8.29 percent. The latest official figures put the recovery rate at 89.35 percent, while the mortality rate stands still at 1.49 percent. Globally, over 89.65 million people have been infected with the novel coronavirus and 1.92 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 witnessing a delirious situation. 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...