A total of seven people were detected positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours till Saturday after testing 1,380 samples in nine COVID-19 laboratories in Chattogram district.
Among the newly detected patients, four are from Chattogram city and three from different upazilas of the district, hospital sources said.
The total number of recovered patients from coronavirus rose to 91,366 with the curing of 102 more people in the last 24 hours.
“The recovered patients were discharged from different home isolations and Dedicated Corona Isolation Hospitals of the district as two consecutive real-time PCR tests were found negative,” said Dr Ilias Chowdhury, civil surgeon of Chattogram.
Chattogram district recorded lowest Covid-19 positivity rate of 0.50 percent during the last 24 hours till Friday morning.
With the newly infected cases, the number of coronavirus (COVID-19) patients stands at 102,385 in the district.
With no new death recorded in the last 24 hours, the death toll steady 1,331 in the district.
A total of 642 infected patients are now undergoing treatment at designated hospitals here, the sources added.
