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.
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