Bangladesh on Monday recorded another 897 new cases of Covid-19, with the country’s daily test positivity sliding down to 3.65 per cent.
In the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) registered 4 more coronavirus-related deaths, taking the total death toll from the deadly virus in the country to 29,037.
The total number of positive cases in Bangladesh now stands at 19,43,577 since the country first detected Covid patients on March 8, 2020.
On Sunday, the positivity rate was 4.01 per cent.
The daily case positivity rate reached its peak of 33.37 per cent on January 28 this year.
Health authorities reported the latest figures after testing 24,605 samples at 876 laboratories across the country. Bangladesh has so far tested 1,34,01339.
Meanwhile, 6,264 patients recovered from the deadly infection in the last 24 hours, raising the overall recovery to 18,06,689.
The test positivity rate has been witnessing an upward trend since the start of the New Year, rising from 2.43 per cent on January 1.
