42 patients died from Covid-19 in the country over the last 24 hours as of Sunday, which is the highest single-day record of fatality in the country, taking the death toll to 888.
Besides, 2,743 more people tested positive for the virus, which makes 65,769 confirmed cases in total.
Additional Director General (Admin) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Dr Nasima Sultana revealed the information at a regular online briefing on Sunday afternoon.
Dr Nasima mentioned that a total of 12,842 samples were collected and 13,136 tested in the last 24 hours. So far, a total of 397,987 samples have been tested in the country.
With 578 new recoveries, a total of 13,903 patients recovered from coronavirus till date.
Among the 42 deceased, 35 were males and seven females. They belonged to the following age groups: one was between 21-30 years, seven between 31-40, nine between 41-50, seven were between 51-60 years, 14 between 61-70, three were between 71-80 and one was between 91-100 years.
Under division-wise categorisation, 27 hailed from the Dhaka division, eight from Chattogram, two from Rajshahi, two from Khulna, two from Sylhet and one from the Mymensingh division.
30 breathed their last while undergoing treatment at various hospitals while the remaining 12 died at home.
Meanwhile, global deaths from the novel coronavirus infection reached 398,321 as of Sunday morning, according to the data by Johns Hopkins University.
So far, 6,855,858 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 3,161,346 infected patients, 3,107,760 are in mild condition, which is 98 percent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 53,586 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only two.
So far, 3,071,403 people have recovered.
