Bangladesh on Saturday recorded another 1,116 new cases of Covid-19, with the country's daily test positivity rate spiking to 5.79 per cent.
In the 24 hours to Saturday, the country also registered one death, pushing the tally up to 28,099.
Bangladesh's test positivity rate has been witnessing an upward trend since the start of this month, rising from 2.43 per cent on January 1.
On Friday, the positivity rate was at 5.67 per cent.
With the latest developments, the number of all confirmed cases now stands at 15,92,209, according to the daily virus update by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) released on Saturday afternoon.
Health authorities reported the latest figures after testing 19,275 samples at 852 laboratories across the country in the last 24 hours. Bangladesh has so far tested 1,16,49,815 samples.
Meanwhile, 154 patients recovered from the deadly infection in the last 24-hours, raising the overall recovery to 15,50,688.
Bangladesh reported its first cases on March 8 last year and the first coronavirus-related death on March 18 the same year.
The daily-case positivity rate reached its peak 32.55 per cent on July 24 last year.
Dhaka, Chattogram, Rajshahi, Khulna, Barisal, Sylhet, Rangpur, and Mymensingh all registered new cases on Saturday.
Dhaka recorded 943 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the highest among all the divisions. Barisal recorded 5 cases, which was the lowest.
Meanwhile, Chattogram recorded 123, Rajshahi 10, Khulna 8, Sylhet 17, Mymensingh 7, and Rangpur 3 new cases.
Meanwhile, the global Covid-19 caseload reached 303,258,064 and the death toll to 5,481,159 till Saturday, according to a US-based Johns Hopkins University (JHU) update.
