Bangladesh reported four new coronavirus-related death and 223 infections in a 24-hour period till 8:00am on Sunday.
During this period, the positivity rate rose to 1.14 from Saturday’s 1.11 per cent. With this, the daily-case positivity rate in the country remained below 2 per cent for the 26th consecutive day.
In Bangladesh, the daily-case positivity rate reached its peak 32.55 per cent on July 24 this year.
The overall caseload now stands at 15,72,501 and the total fatalities at 27,922 according to the press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Health authorities reported the latest figures after testing 19,517 samples at 836 laboratories across the country.
Bangladesh has so far tested 1,05,95,790 samples.
Meanwhile, 212 patients recovered from the deadly infection in the last 24-hours, raising the overall recovery to 15,36,515.
Dhaka division logged the highest deaths with three fatalities and Chattogram logged one fatality.
Bangladesh reported its first cases on March 8 last year and the first coronavirus-related death on March 18 the same year.
Meanwhile, the global Covid-19 caseload reached 253,089,559 and the death toll to 5,098,179 till Sunday morning, according to US-based Johns Hopkins University (JHU) update.
