Bangladesh on Sunday recorded another 233 new cases of Covid-19, with the country’s daily test positivity slightly increased to 1.88 per cent.
In the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said 3 more coronavirus-related deaths were also recorded, taking the total death toll from the deadly virus in the country to 29,111.
Bangladesh’s total number of positive cases now stands at 19,49,486 since the country first detected Covid patients on March 8, 2020.
On Saturday, the positivity rate was at 1.77 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 12,336 samples at 878 laboratories across the country. Bangladesh has so far tested 1,36,37,737 samples.
Meanwhile, 1,417 patients recovered from the deadly infection in the last 24 hours, raising the overall recovery to 18,60,886.
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.
