37 patients died from Covid-19 in the country over the last 24 hours as of Friday, taking the death toll to 2,275.
Besides, 2,949 more people tested positive for the virus, which makes 178,443 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 Friday afternoon.
Dr Nasima mentioned that a total of 14,377 samples were collected and 13,488 tested in the last 24 hours. So far, a total of 918,272 samples have been tested in the country.
With 1,862 new recoveries, a total of 86,406 patients recovered from coronavirus to date.
The deceased, of whom 29 were males and eight females, belonged to the following age groups: one was between 21-30, one between 31-40, seven were between 41-50, nine aged between 51-60 years, 15 between 61-70 and four was between 71-80 years.
Under division-wise categorisation, 12 hailed from the Dhaka division, 17 from Chattogram, two each from Rajshahi, Sylhet and Rangpur, and one each from Barishal and Mymensingh divisions.
23 breathed their last while undergoing treatment at various hospitals whereas 14 died at home.
Meanwhile, the global death toll from the novel coronavirus infection reached 554,304 as of Friday morning, according to the Centre for System Science and Engineering of Johns Hopkins University.
So far, 12,232,745 cases have been confirmed around the world after Covid-19, the disease caused by the new strain of coronavirus, was first reported in China in December last year.
Although cases of new infection keep growing among the infected world population currently, most of them are in mild condition.
Among the currently 4,642,636 infected patients, 4,584,182 are in mild condition, which is 99 per cent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 58,454 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only one.
So far, 6,707,030 people have recovered.
