Five more people, all of them from Dhaka, died from Covid-19 in the country over the last 24 hours, taking the death toll to 175. Besides, 552 more people tested positive which makes 8,790 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 Saturday.
She said three of the deceased were male and two were female. All of them were from Dhaka.
With 3 new recoveries in the last 24 hours as of Saturday, a total of 177 patients recovered from coronavirus till date, she added.
Dr Nasima mentioned that a total of 6,193 samples were collected and 5,827 were tested in the last 24 hours.
Meanwhile, the global death toll from the novel coronavirus infection reached 238,650 as of Saturday morning, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally.
So far, 3,343,777 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.
Of them, 2,079,801 are currently being treated and 51,355 of them are in serious or critical condition, says worldometer.
So far, 1,053,327 people have recovered.
