Dhaka, Sept. 18 -- Covid-19 infection rate remaining less than 10 percentages for the recent days raised hopes among all sections of people, and the public health experts say that maintaining strict safety measures caseload may go below zero percent.

They said, the Covid infection rate has fallen due to the several weeks' strict lockdown ending on August 11.

As per the data of the Directorate General of Health Services, a total of 29,756 samples were tested during the last 24 hours from Thursday morning to Friday morning at 8 a.m. with an infection rate of 6.41pc. It was 5.98 percent on the previous day (Thursday).

The DGHS data revealed that the fatalities were 51 on Thursday and 38 on Friday. The data showed that while the number of ...