{"id":61561,"date":"2025-06-18T07:29:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T07:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deshmediabd.com\/?p=61561"},"modified":"2025-06-18T07:29:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T07:29:34","slug":"covid-19-claims-2-lives-18-new-cases-reported-in-24-hrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/?p=61561","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 claims 2 lives, 18 new cases reported in 24 hrs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Online Report<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh reported two new COVID-19-related deaths and 18 fresh infections in the last 24 hours, according to a health bulletin released by Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The infections were detected after testing 312 samples, resulting in a daily positivity rate of 5.77 percent.<\/p>\n<p>With the latest figures, the total number of confirmed cases in the country has risen to 2,051,876, while the death toll stands at 29,506.<\/p>\n<p>The overall test positivity rate since the onset of the pandemic is now 13.05 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh first detected COVID-19 cases on March 8, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The first death from the virus was reported 10 days later, on March 18.<\/p>\n<p>The country saw its highest single-day death toll of 264 on two occasions; August 5 and August 10, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Online Report Bangladesh reported two new COVID-19-related deaths and 18 fresh infections in the last 24 hours, according to a health bulletin released by Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Tuesday. The infections were detected after testing 312 samples, resulting in a daily positivity rate of 5.77 percent. With the latest figures, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-14","category-31"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61563,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61561\/revisions\/61563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}