Bangladesh reported 58 new coronavirus-related deaths and 2,588 fresh cases in a 24-hour period till 8:00am on Thursday.
The positivity rate on Thursday dropped below 9 per cent to 8.76 per cent after 15 weeks.
Earlier, the positivity rate was recorded at 8.12 per cent on May 27.
The overall caseload now stands at 15,24,890 and the total fatalities at 26,794, according to the press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Health authorities reported the latest figures after testing 29,541 samples at 800 laboratories across the country. Bangladesh has so far tested 91,75,912 samples.
Meanwhile, 3,617 patients recovered from the deadly infection in the last 24-hours, raising the overall recovery to 14,68,211.
Among the fresh fatalities, 35 were males and 23 were females.
Dhaka division logged the highest deaths with 22 fatalities followed by 19 in Chattogram, eight in Sylhet, five in Khulna, three in Rajshahi, and one in Rangpur.
Bangladesh reported its first cases on March 8 last year and the first coronavirus-related death on March 18 the same year.
Mass vaccination for 2nd dose enters last day
The government continued inoculating people against Covid-19 with a second dose under a mass vaccination campaign for the third and last day on Thursday across the country.
People were seen standing in queues at different vaccination centres in Dhaka and elsewhere for receiving their second jabs since morning.
On Tuesday, the government started administering the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine under the mass vaccination campaign.
The people will have to take the second dose in the same centre where they got the first dose, as per the government decision.
The vaccine takers who received the first dose of vaccine in all city corporation areas on August 7 and 8 got the second dose on Tuesday.
People who received the first dose on August 9 and 10 got the second dose on Wednesday.
The vaccine recipients who were inoculated on August 11 and 12 received the second shot on Thursday.
People who took their first shots from outside of city corporation areas on August 7, also received their second shots from the same centres on Tuesday.
Bangladesh on August 7 launched another phase of its mass vaccination drive with a view to inoculating 35 lakh people in six days.
