Bangladesh on Tuesday reported 45 deaths and 3,171 new positive cases for novel coronavirus over the last 24 hours, both of which are the highest single-day records in the country so far.
The latest figures take the death toll to 975 and the total number of infections to 71,675.
Additional Director General (Admin) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Dr Nasima Sultana revealed the information at a regular online briefing on Tuesday afternoon.
Dr Nasima mentioned that a total of 14,664 samples were tested in the last 24 hours. So far, a total of 425,595 samples have been tested in the country.
With 777 new recoveries, a total of 15,336 patients recovered from coronavirus till date.
The deceased, of whom 33 were males and 12 females, belonged to the following age groups: two were between 11-20 years, two between 21-30, five between 31-40, three were between 41-50 years, 15 between 51-60, ten between 61-70 and eight were between 71-80 years.
Under division-wise categorisation, 28 hailed from the Dhaka division, 11 from Chattogram and two each from Rajshahi, Sylhet and Rangpur divisions.
Meanwhile, the global death toll from the novel coronavirus infection reached 406,402 as of Tuesday morning, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally.
So far, 7,097,717 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.
Although cases of new infection keep growing among the infected world population currently, most of them are in mild condition.
Among the currently 3,249,501 infected patients, 3,195,704 are in mild condition, which is 98 percent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 53,797 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only two.
So far, 3,292,612 people have recovered.
