<span style="color: black;">The number of Corona patients and deaths have declined in Bangladesh, claimed the Health Minister Zahid Maleque.<br />'' <br />''He said that about 60-70 percent of the beds earmarked for Corona patients in designated hospitals are lying vacant.<br />'' <br />''The Minister said that most of the Corona patients are taking treatment at home and 4000-5000 doctors are providing telemedicine services to the people, reports UNB.</span><br />'' <br />''<span style="color: black;">Speaking to the press in Dhaka on Sunday Zahid Maleq denied that there was any shortage of testing kits in the country. <br />''<br />''<br />''Explaining the decline in the number of people being tested, he said that floods and reluctance of people have contributed to the reduction in the numbers. </span><br />'' <br />''<span style="color: black;">In the meanwhile, Bangladesh reported 39 deaths and 2907 new cases of Coronavirus in the country over the last 24 hours since Sunday taking the death toll to 3438.<br />'' <br />''According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), 2067 recoveries were also reported over the same period taking the total number of recoveries over 1.5 lakh. <br />''<br />''<br />''The total number of Corona positive cases as on Monday stands at over 2.6 lakh out of which 1.06 lakh cases are currently active cases.</span><br />'' <br />''<span style="color: black;">In a worrying incident, thousands of people gathered in the funeral procession of a local cleric in Brahmanbaria district of Bangladesh on Sunday defying the restrictions imposed by the government and health directives about social distancing and wearing of masks in public places.<br />'' <br />''Earlier, in a similar incident on April 18 in Sarail Upzila of Bangladesh, several police personnel were moved out from the district following criticism. </span><br />