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Bangladesh added 10 new coronavirus-related deaths and 339 infections in a 24-hour period till 8am on Monday.
Against a five-day downward trend, the positivity rate marginally went up to 1.8 per cent from Sunday’s 1.74 per cent.
With this, the daily case positivity rate in the country remained below 5 per cent for the 28th consecutive day.
In Bangladesh, the daily case positivity rate reached its peak, 32.55 per cent, on July 24 this year.
The overall caseload now stands at 15,65,827 and the total fatalities at 27,778, according to the press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The health authorities reported the latest figures after testing 18,812 samples at 831 laboratories across the country.
Bangladesh has so far tested 1,01,13,794 samples.
Meanwhile, 509 patients recovered from the deadly infection in the last 24 hours, raising the overall recovery figure to 15,28,371.
Among the fresh fatalities, four were males and six were females.
Dhaka and Khulna divisions logged the highest deaths with three fatalities each, followed by two in Chattogram, and one each in Rajshahi and Khulna.
