Bangladesh recorded the lowest number of deaths and single-day infections in two months in the past 24 hours ending 8:00am Saturday.
More 22 people died from the viral disease in the past 24 hours pushing the death toll to 12,124 and only 261 people found Covid positive after examining 3,758 samples during the period raising the number of infections to 7,79,796.
The first case of Covid-19 was detected in Bangladesh on March 8, 2020, and the first death from the disease was reported on March 18, 2020.
UNB adds: the mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.55 per cent, according to the Directorate General of Health Services.
The country witnessed a sharp drop in the number of new cases as the tests have declined dramatically.
The daily infection rate dropped to 6.95 per cent from Friday's 10.82 per cent, while the recovery rate stood at 92.52 per cent.
Bangladesh has so far carried out 5,702,286 tests since reporting the first Covid-19 cases on March 8 last year and the first death from the virus on the 18th of the month.
The country experienced a surge in Covid-19 cases in April and the daily cases fell below 2,000 in early May.
