Bangladesh added 172 new coronavirus-related deaths over the last 24 hours on Wednesday till 8:00am.
Health authorities also reported 7,248 new infections from the deadly virus during the same period.
With these, the overall caseload now stands at 14,40,644 and total fatalities at 24,719, according to the daily press release issued by Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
In the 24 hours, the positivity rate went down to 17.67 per cent from Tuesday's 19.18 per cent.
Health authorities reported the latest figures after testing 41,014 samples at 721 laboratories across the country. Bangladesh has so far tested 85,21,828 samples.
Meanwhile, 12,112 patients recovered from the deadly infection in the last 24-hours raising the overall recovery to 13,27,028.
Among the fresh fatalities, 98 were males and 78 were females.
Dhaka division was the worst-hit region logging 67 deaths followed by 47 in Chattogram, 16 in Khulna, 15 in Sylhet, 10 in Mymensingh, 8 in Rajshahi, 5 each in Barishal, and 4 in Rangpur.
Bangladesh reported its first cases on March 8 last year and the first coronavirus-related death on March 18 the same year.
