13 more people died of Covid-19 and 438 others got infected by the deadly virus in Bangladesh in the last 24 hours till 8 am on Wednesday.
With the fresh ones, the total death toll from the virus in the country reached 8,162 while the mortality rate stood at 1.52 per cent, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said in a handout.
It said the daily Covid-19 infection rate in the country is now 2.92 per cent.
Meanwhile, the new cases pushed up the national tally to 536,545, putting the current overall detection rate at 14.53 per cent.
Until this morning, 481,306 patients (89.70 per cent of the total reported cases) have recovered.
So far, 3,693,634 samples were tested, including 15,147 during the past 24 hours.
Bangladesh reported its first Coronavirus cases on March 8 and the first death on March 18 last year.
