33 patients died from Covid-19 in the country over the last 24 hours as of Wednesday, taking the death toll to 3,267.
Besides, 2,654 more people tested positive for the virus, which makes 246,674 confirmed cases in total.
Additional Director General (Admin) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Dr Nasima Sultana revealed the information at a regular online briefing on Wednesday afternoon.
Dr Nasima mentioned that a total of 11,964 samples were collected and 11,160 tested in the last 24 hours. So far, a total of 1,212,416 samples have been tested in the country.
With 1,890 new recoveries, a total of 141,750 patients recovered from coronavirus to date.
The deceased, of whom 25 were males and eight females, belonged to the following age groups: two were between 31-40 years, four between 41-50 years, eight between 51-60 years, 10 between 61-70, six were between 71-80 and one was between 81-90 and two between 91-100 years of age.
Under division-wise categorisation, 18 hailed from the Dhaka division, nine from Chattogram, three from Rangpur and one each from Khulna, Rajshahi and Barishal divisions.
31 of the deceased breathed their last while undergoing treatment at various hospitals and two died at home.
Meanwhile, the global death toll from the novel coronavirus infection reached 700,896 as of Wednesday afternoon, according to the data provided by the Centre for System Science and Engineering of Johns Hopkins University.
Moreover, 18,554,658 Covid-19 cases have been confirmed around the world.
Although cases of new infection keep growing among the infected world population currently, most of them are in mild condition.
Among the currently 6,081,548 infected patients 6,016,171 are in mild condition, which is 99 per cent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 65,377 (of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only one.
So far, 11,940,682 people have recovered.
