Eighteen more people died of Covid-19 in Bangladesh and another 602 got infected by the deadly virus in the past 24 hours till Monday morning.
The death toll from the pandemic rose to 8,041 while the total caseload reached 532,401, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) in a handout.
So far, 3,570,387 samples have been tested, including 14,810 in the past 24 hours.
The DGHS handout said the daily detection rate was 4.06 per cent while the overall rate is 14.91 per cent.
Until this morning, 476,979 patients (89.59 per cent) have recovered. “The mortality rate is now 1.51 per cent,” the DGHS said.
Bangladesh reported its first Coronavirus cases on March 8 and the first death on March 18.
