Bangladesh reports highest number of COVID-19 deaths despite lockdown
The Peninsula
DHAKA, Bangladesh – Bangladesh on Sunday witnessed 153 COVID-19 deaths, the highest number since the pandemic hit the country, amid a weeklong strict nationwide lockdown in effect since July 1 to curb the spread of the virus.
The death toll in the South Asian country reached 15,065, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). Some 8,660 infections over the past 24 hours raised the total number of infections to 944,917, it said, adding some 29,879 COVID-19 samples were tested across the country over the past day.
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