46 patients died from Covid-19 in the country over the last 24 hours as of Wednesday, taking the death toll to 2,197.
Besides, 3,489 more people tested positive for the virus, which makes 172,134 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 15,883 samples were collected and 15,672 tested in the last 24 hours. So far, a total of 889,152 samples have been tested in the country.
With 2,736 new recoveries, a total of 80,838 patients recovered from coronavirus to date.
The deceased, of whom 38 were males and eight females, belonged to the following age groups: two were between 21-30 years, two between 31-40, one were between 41-50 years, 15 between 51-60 years, 16 between 61-70, six between 71-80, three between 81-90 and one was between 91-100 years.
Under division-wise categorisation, 12 hailed from the Dhaka division, 14 from Chattogram, nine from Khulna, four from Sylhet, three each from Rajshahi and Barishal and one hailed from the Rangpur division.
38 breathed their last while undergoing treatment at various hospitals whereas eight died at home.
Meanwhile, the global death toll from the novel coronavirus infection reached 543,481 as of Wednesday morning, according to the Centre for System Science and Engineering of Johns Hopkins University.
So far, 11,797,891 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 4,553,134 infected patients, 4,494,907 are in mild condition, which is 99 per cent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 58,227 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only one.
So far, 6,416,196 people have recovered.
