Bangladesh reported 120 new coronavirus-related deaths over the last 24 hours till 8:00am Saturday, which is the lowest death count in 52 days.
Health authorities also reported 3,991 new infections from the deadly virus during the same period.
On June 30, the country recorded 115 fatalities from the deadly infection.
With these, the overall caseload now stands at 14,57,194 and total fatalities at 25,143, according to the daily press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
In the last 24 hours, the positivity rate went down to 16.71 per cent from Friday’s 17.18 per cent.
Health authorities reported the latest figures after testing 23,882 samples at 724 laboratories across the country. Bangladesh has so far tested 86,17,882 samples.
Meanwhile, 7,666 patients recovered from the deadly infection in the last 24-hours, raising the overall recovery to 13,55,421.
Among the fresh fatalities, 69 were males and 51 were females.
Dhaka division was the worst-hit region logging 40 deaths followed by 27 in Chattogram, 15 in Khulna, 13 in Sylhet, nine in Rajshahi, seven in Rangpur, six in Mymensingh, and three in Barishal.
7,81,440 AstraZeneca doses arrive from Japan
A consignment of 7,81,440 doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine arrived in Bangladesh from Japan Saturday afternoon.
A flight of Cathay Pacific Airways, carrying the vaccine shots, reached Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) at 3:24pm, confirmed Group Captain AHM Touhid-ul Ahsan, director of HSIA.
The flight left Japan's Narita International Airport Friday.
With this shipment, the total amount of dispatched vaccines from Japan as of Friday stands at over 2.4 million.
Bangladesh reported its first cases on March 8 last year and the first coronavirus-related death on March 18 the same year.
