Bangladesh on Monday recorded another 9,369 new cases of Covid-19, with the country’s daily test positivity rate standing at 21.07 per cent.
In the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) also recorded 38 more coronavirus-related deaths, taking the total death toll from the deadly virus in the country to 28,627.
Bangladesh’s total number of positive cases now stands at 18,70,901 since the country first detected Covid patient on March 8, 2020.
On Sunday, the positivity rate was at 21.50 per cent.
The daily case positivity rate reached its peak of 33.37 per cent on January 28 this year.
Health authorities reported the latest figures after testing 44,471 samples at 868 laboratories across the country. Bangladesh has so far tested 1,27,70,880 samples.
Meanwhile, 9,507 patients recovered from the deadly infection in the last 24 hours, raising the overall recovery to 16,12,057.
The test positivity rate has been witnessing an upward trend since the start of the New Year, rising from 2.43 per cent on January 1.
Among the new deceased, 28 were men and 10 women.
16 deaths were reported in the Dhaka division, six in Chattogram, five in Rajshahi, five in Khulna, three in Sylhet, one in Rangpur, and two in Mymensingh.
