Bangladesh sees record highest death 258 in Covid -19 in a day .

Bangladesh has reported its highest single-day deaths from the coronavirus for two days in a row as the health authorities struggle to rein in Covid-19 transmission following the Eid holidays.

The country reported 258 deaths in the 24 hours to 8am on Tuesday, taking the total number of deaths to 19,779.

The country earlier witnessed the record high 231 COVID-10 deaths on July 19, while the highest 13,768 single-day cases on July 12.

The new record surpassed the previous high of 247 on Monday.

Dhaka counted 84 deaths, the highest among the eight divisions, followed by Chittagong with 61 fatalities and Khulna with 50.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has placed Bangladesh at 11th position in the list of countries witnessing higher deaths and on 12th position in terms of COVID-19 cases.

Bangladesh on Friday reimposed a 'stricter' 14-day nationwide shutdown to contain the spread of coronavirus, amid mounting fear that easing of restrictions ahead of Eid when tens of millions of people returned to their villages may result in a rise in COVID-19 cases.

CU beds filling up

According to the DGHS press release, there are only 217 beds vacant, some 16%, among 1,319 ICU beds available for critical patients across the country. 

On Sunday, 18% ICU beds were vacant while it was 19% on Saturday and 20% on Friday. 

Day by day, ICUs across the country are getting filled due to the surge caused by the Delta variant. 

The government said everyone must stay indoors as offices, courts, garment factories and all other export-oriented industries will remain closed.

"The stricter lockdown has been ordered for the next 14 days, unlike the previous restrictions export-oriented factories will come under its purview," a cabinet division spokesman said on Friday.

 

No end of the crisis- Again another record high covid deaths 230 in Bangladesh .

The graveyard is full of  covid dead body .

 

 

Two hundred and thirty people died from Covid-19 in 24 hours (till 8am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services .

This is by far the highest number of deaths from Covid-19 in a single day in the country since the pandemic began last year.

 
 The health authorities reported  11,874 new  cases in 24 hours to 8am on Sunday.

The country recorded the highest number of fatalities only after two days. On Friday, it was 212 deaths.

Additionally, the number of single-day infection surpassed the previous high of 11,651 cases on Thursday.

As the country continues to reach new high of Covid deaths and cases in the past few weeks, DGHS spokesperson Robed Amin issued a warning saying the situation will take a turn for the worse in the next one week if the virus transmission cannot be brought under control.

The country recorded the highest number of fatalities only after two days. On Friday, it was 212 deaths.

Additionally, the number of single-day infection surpassed the previous high of 11,651 cases on Thursday.

With the latest development, the total number of deaths reached 15,419 while the number of total infections rose to 1,021,189 in the country, according to the latest figures by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

As the country continues to reach new high of Covid deaths and cases in the past few weeks, DGHS spokesperson Robed Amin issued a warning saying the situation will take a turn for the worse in the next one week if the virus transmission cannot be brought under control.

“The existing variant is not causing death among the elderly only but among the young people as well,” he said in DGHS’s weekly bulletin on Sunday.

Meanwhile, as many as 40,015 samples were tested across the country, for a positivity rate of 29.67%.

In terms of cases per division, Dhaka logged the highest with 4,961 cases followed by Khulna with 1,991 cases, Chittagong with 1,953, and Rajshahi with 1,153.

On the other hand, Khulna division reported 66 deaths, the highest among the eight divisions, followed by Dhaka with 56 deaths. 

Chittagong division counted 39 deaths while Rajshahi 26, Rangpur 22, Barisal and Sylhet eight each, and Mymensingh five.  

Of the 230 deceased – 133 men and 97 women – 111 were aged above 60 years, 51 aged between 51 and 60, 42 aged between 41 and 50, 19 aged between 31 and 40, and seven in the 21-30 age group.

The pandemic has so far claimed the lives of 11,508 men (70.09%) and 4,911 women (29.91%). 

The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.61%.

 

Bangladesh see another highest 212 covid deaths , 11324 new cases .

Volunteers carry dead body of covid patients to bury in the graveyard .

 

Bangladesh on Friday touched the grim milestone of 10 lakh Covid cases while record 212 new deaths from the viral disease were logged around the country on the day.

This was the fifth day that Covid figures broke earlier records in a way or the other as over 11,000 Covid cases were registered for the fourth straight day while the top four daily infection figures were also recorded on these four days after the viral disease emerged in the country on March 8, 2020.

This was the second day that the daily death toll exceeded the 200 mark, two days after 201 deaths were recorded on July 7.

With the latest development, the total number of deaths reached 16,004, while the number of total infections rose to 1,000,543 in the country .  

The health authorities in Bangladesh reported the first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a strain of coronavirus named Sars-CoV-2, on March 8, 2020.

Since November last year, five variants of the virus have been detected in Bangladesh including the Indian variant (B.1.617.2) being the latest. It was later renamed as the Delta variant.

 

 

Deadly Fire Engulfs Bangladesh City Narayangonj Killed 52 People .

Firefighters trying to put out the deadly fire at Narayngonj 

At least 52  people died in a fire that engulfed a food and beverage factory near capital city of Bangladesh .

The blaze began in thursday night at five stored Hashem food and beverage Ltd just outside Dhaka .

Meanwhile, on Friday evening, angry survivors of the factory fire and relatives, family members of the victims locked in clashes with police and Ansar members in Rupganj. Narayangonj .

The enraged workers also barricaded the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in the morning for the delay in rescue effort while they searched the factory for several dozens of missing people.

The agitated workers attacked on Ansar camp and looted three shotguns, which were later recovered by the Rapid Action Battalion.

The workers and family members broke into tears as fire-fighters started to bring out charred bodies of workers from the factory in the afternoon.

Many of those injured leapt for their lives from the upper floors in the complex, police said. It was unclear how many people were trapped inside.

Bangladesh faces record 201 deaths in Covid-19 in a day . 11162 new cases .

 Bangladesh is now passing the most dangerous stage of Covid-19 second wave . Authorities said a record 201 people had died in the previous 24 hours, while almost 11162 tested positive -- the most single day-infections since the first case was detected in March last year.

The government has decided to extend the ongoing strict “lockdown” for another week in a bid to stem the spread of Covid-19.

Khulna tallied 66 fatalities in a single-day count, the most among the eight divisions in the country. Dhaka was a close second with 58 deaths, followed by Chattogram with 21, Rajshahi with 18 and Rangpur with 14.

Dhaka logged the highest daily cases among the eight divisions with 4,732. Khulna saw 1,900, Chattogram 1,586 and Rajshahi 997, while Rangpur saw 571.

Under the lockdown imposed at the start of the month, and now extended until July 14, Bangladesh's 168 million people can only leave home for emergencies and to buy essentials.

The army and police are patrolling the streets, there is no public transport and shops and offices are shut. Food markets can open for a few hours a day.

In the capital Dhaka, home to some 20 million people, authorities have arrested more than 2,000 people for breaching lockdown rules.

Garment factories, a key pillar of Bangladesh's export-oriented economy, are exempted from the shutdown.

The health department said some 50 percent of infections are occurring outside the cities, with districts bordering India, where the Delta variant first originated, worst hit.

 

 

Bangladesh reports highest 153 death in Covid 19 .

Burying the body of a man who died due to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) at a graveyard in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 

 

 

Three days after Bangladesh saw a record in daily Covid deaths it witnessed another on Sunday with 153 fatalities reported in the 24 hours till 8:00am on the day while the country’s overall death toll from the disease has topped the 15,000 mark.

The number of Sunday’s infections was also the highest in four days, with 8,661 people infected with the novel coronavirus during the same period as the Delta variant has become the dominant strain in circulation across the country.

The Covid-19 crisis in Bangladesh is showing no signs of improvement after four days of hard lockdown, as the country crosses the grim milestone of 15,000 deaths, while setting a new record for the highest fatalities in 24 hours - all on the same day. 

The new record surpassed the previous high of 143, which was recorded on Thursday.

The newest 1,000 deaths occurred in just nine days, showing the severity of the situation right now. 

Khulna division, the current Covid-19 hotspot, reported 51 deaths - the highest among the eight divisions, followed by Dhaka with 46 deaths.

Among the deceased, 96 are men and 57 women.

 

 

Indian Actor Amir Khan Divorced Kiran Rao After 15 Years of Marriage .

Amir Khan with Kiran Rao 

They met on sets of the Ashutosh Gowariker-directed Lagaan (2001), one of the most commercially successful Indian movies, where the former was an assistant director. Their romance, Khan said in some interviews, bloomed later when the actor was going through the process of legal separation from his first wife, Reena Dutta. Khan and Dutta, who have a son, Junaid, and a daughter, Ira, together, divorced in 2002.

The marriage of Kiran Rao and Aamir Khan — they tied the knot on December 28, 2005 — has been one of the most creative associations of Indian cinema, bringing together one of its biggest superstars and a cinema lover who aspired to make her mark as a writer-director.
 

Actor Aamir Khan and filmmaker Kiran Rao have announced their divorce after 15 years of marriage in a joint statement. The couple said that they will co-parent their son, Azad Rao Khan, as well as continue with their professional partnership on Paani Foundation and ‘other projects that (they) feel passionate about’.

In a joint statement, the couple said they were living separately yet sharing their lives the way an extended family does. “We will also continue to work as collaborators on films, Paani Foundation, and other projects that we feel passionate about,” the statement read.

Bangladesh Goes For 7 Days Strict Lockdown to Control Deadly Covid Delta Variant.

Law enforcers vigilant on country's street .

 

Bangladesh  residents woke up to deserted roads as Bangladesh entered a stringent lockdown on Thursday 1st July with patrol teams out there to convince people to stay off the streets.

The complete lockdown, which came into effect on Thursday morning to mitigate the spread of Covid-19, will continue till July 7 midnight.

Army personnel started patrolling the city streets in aid of the civil administration as the government scrambles to bring the Covid-19 situation under control.  

Police have set up barricades and check-posts at all important points of the city to monitor the movement of vehicles as well as people. So, most roads in the capital were found almost empty with fewer private vehicles moving.

However, slow-moving rickshaws were seen moving everywhere in the city.

Kitchen markets in the city remained open as the government allowed those to operate from 8 am to 5 pm.

However, the restriction will not be applicable for carrying goods, emergency services and production. But the offices related to air, maritime and river and land ports will remain out of the preview of the lockdown.

Industries and factories will remain open subject to maintaining health protocols.

Kitchen markets and shops with daily essentials will remain open from 9 am to 5 pm, and customers can purchase their goods following health safety protocols. Local administrations and the authorities concerned will ensure it.

No one will be allowed to venture out except for certain emergency needs (to purchase medicines, daily essentials, to take medical services and burial/ cremation of dead bodies, taking Covid-19 jabs etc). Legal action will be taken against those who will violate the restrictions.

Hotels and restaurants can operate from 8am to 8pm with takeaway/online services only.

Those who need to take vaccines can move after showing vaccine cards.

8,301 new cases reported in 24 hours with a positivity rate of 25.9%

The daily Covid-19 death toll in Bangladesh hit another high with 143 fatalities reported on Thursday as the country went into a strict lockdown with people confined to their homes, except for emergencies and to buy essentials.

The new record surpassed the previous peak of 119 on Sunday.