Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 14 Aug 2021, 01:16 pm Print
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Dhaka: Bangladesh, the country witnessing a severe COVID-19 outbreak for the past several weeks, registered 178 new deaths due to the virus in the past 24 hours, media reports said.
The fresh deaths due to the virus now stands at 23,988.
The COVID-19 caseload surged to 1,412,218 after 6,885 people, the lowest daily count in three weeks, tested positive for the disease in the 24 hours to 8 am on Saturday, according to the latest government data, reports bdnews24.
Dhaka registered the most daily deaths and new cases among the eight divisions, logging 67 fatalities and 4,157 infections. Chattogram tallied 45 deaths and 1,327 cases, Khulna 23 deaths and 322 cases, the news portal reported.
After the virus was first detected in China in 2019, the virus has now been detected in different parts of the globe.
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