Bangladesh on Monday registered 116 fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours while the daily infection rate was found to be 1.06 per cent.
The country did not log any more deaths over the same period, keeping the tally at 29,117.
On Sunday, the positivity rate stood at 0.9 per cent.
With the fresh infections, the number of total caseload reached 19,50,725, according to the daily virus update by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) released on Monday afternoon.
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Health authorities reported the latest figures after testing 10,899 samples at 878 laboratories across the country. Bangladesh has so far tested 1,37,29,134 samples.
Meanwhile, 1,140 patients recovered from the deadly infection in the last 24 hours, raising the overall recovery to 18,71,611.
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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.
