The number of newly confirmed cases of coronavirus infection in the country surpassed 750 on Tuesday, with 786 testing positive in the last 24 hours. With this a total of 10,929 confirmed cases have been recorded in the country so far.
Besides, one patient died from Covid-19, taking the death toll from the virus to 183.
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.
She said the deceased was male and his age was between 21 to 30 years.
With 193 new recoveries, a total of 1,403 patients recovered from coronavirus till date.
Dr Nasima mentioned that a total of 6,182 samples were collected and 5,711 were tested in the last 24 hours.
Meanwhile, global deaths from the novel coronavirus infection reached 251,510 as of Tuesday morning, according to the data provided by Johns Hopkins University.
So far, 3,582,469 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, 98 percent are in mild condition.
Of the currently infected 2,197,985 patients, 2,148,350 are in mild condition, which is 98 percent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. 49,635 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is two.
So far, 1,162,538 people have recovered.
