Bangladesh now ranks 10th in the world both in the daily and weekly increases in new Covid-19 infections, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Latin American country Brazil is in the 1st position in new positive cases in 24 hours with 32,913 cases.
The USA ranks second with 20,315 cases, India ranks third with 9,996 cases and Russian Federation ranks fourth with 8,779 cases.
WHO website shows Pakistan in the fifth position with 5,834 new cases in 24 hours while Chile sixth, Peru seventh, Mexico eighth, Saudi Arabia ninth and Bangladesh in 10th position with 3,190 new cases in 24 hours as of Thursday morning.
WHO weekly ranking also shows Bangladesh in 10th position with 19,725 infections in the last 7 days until Thursday.
In weekly infection ranking, Brazil ranked first, USA second while South Asian country India ranked third with 69,660 infections in the last seven days.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh on Friday reported the highest new coronavirus cases 3,471 as well as record deaths of 46 people in the last 24 hours as of Friday morning. Besides, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has so far reported 81,523 coronavirus cases and 1,095 deaths.
