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Bangladesh: Epidemiological Highlights Week 17 (17-23 April 2022)

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Highlights: COVID-19

As of week 17, (25 Apr-1 May) 2022 there were 5,922 confirmed cases of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2), out of 99,607 samples that had been submitted for testing. The total positivity rate now stands at 5.9% In the reporting week, no new confirmed cases were detected out of 558 total samples tested. The Test positivity Rate (TPR) was 0.4% in the previous week with 3 positive cases out of 696 samples.
Highlights: COVID-19

As of this week (week 17)

• Median age of tested and confirmed cases were 11 (0-120) and 20 (0-100) years respectively

• Proportion of females among tested and confirmed cases were 54% and 55% respectively

• All the 34 camps, have so far reported confirmed cases since the outbreak began, while the five camps with the highest number of reported cases were; C17-408, C24-388, C2W-368, C4-365, and C3-337

• No new death was reported in this Epi week.
Total confirmed COVID-19 deaths so far reported to date stands at 42 with the average case fatality ratio of 0.7%

• The weekly incidence was 3.5 cases/1 million population in the previous Epi week.