Corona cases tops 1.5 lakh, new deaths 29

As of today (4 July), 159,679 Covid-19 infected patients have been confirmed in Bangladesh, with 3288 new patients being screened positively in the last 24 hours.

Health authorities aired this announcement on Saturday along with the report of 29 more deaths incurred for this virus, which brings the total death to 1997.

Additional Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Prof Dr Nasima Sultana put forth this latest figures in an online bulletin concerning the Covid-19 situation on Saturday afternoon.

She added around 2673 patients have been recovered and released from hospitals in the meantime this same period to ignite the light of hope. Counting that, Covid-19's winning number stands at 70,721.

She also reported that over the last 24 hours 14,727 samples of suspect coronavirus were tested. In this research, there are more than 61 coronavirus laboratories across the country were involved.