Bangladesh on Saturday registered 65 fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours while the daily infection rate slid down to 0.89 per cent.
The country lost no lives over the same period, keeping the tally to 29,118.
On Friday, the positivity rate stood at 1.03 per cent.
With the fresh infections, the total caseload reached 19,51,239, 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 7,336 samples at 879 laboratories across the country. Bangladesh has so far tested 1,37,79,983 samples.
Meanwhile, 983 patients recovered from the deadly infection in the last 24 hours, raising the overall recovery to 18,77,131.
Bangladesh reported its first cases on March 8, 2020, and the first coronavirus-related death on March 18 the same year.
The daily case positivity rate reached its peak at 33.37 per cent on January 28 this year.
